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Originally Posted by kalos72
I am thinking about the value of setting up a team on the Great Lakes to gain control of the Lakes and start to use it to transport people/materials throughout.
What kind of "Navy" would you need to control the waterways? A Brown Water Navy style?
Would Canada take issue?
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Two navies, or perhaps two types of several navies. I think you should want small boats for shoreline work, a flotilla for each lake, and maybe a few larger vessels for patrolling further out in each lake. Something like the Coast Guard cutters in the latter case.
The larger vessels for assisting shipping, the smaller for coastal patrols. Unless you have a marauder flotilla crossing a lake to raid another coast, I don't see a need for many of the bigger vessels.
Canada should certainly be involved in whatever arming takes place, IIRC, the treaties that demilitarized the lakes after the War of 1812 should still be in place.