Source: "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" by Daniel Ellsberg
Militaries do all kinds of planning - doesn't mean that anyone has the intention of actually executing them.
e.g. The UK did war planning of invading Eastern Europe after WW2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable
Obviously, the conclusion of this planning was that it was a bad idea...
Before WW2 the United States had a plan on how to fight the British Empire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
Around the same time the Canadians had plans for attacking the USA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1
Source: "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" by Daniel Ellsberg
Militaries do all kinds of planning - doesn't mean that anyone has the intention of actually executing them.
e.g. The UK did war planning of invading Eastern Europe after WW2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable
Obviously, the conclusion of this planning was that it was a bad idea...
Before WW2 the United States had a plan on how to fight the British Empire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
Around the same time the Canadians had plans for attacking the USA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1