 The seeds of the Cold War had been sown well before the close of the Second World War.Militant communism threatened the fleeting peace that was achieved through the defeat of the Axis powers.Operating under the belief that the next war would be nuclear and would likely be finished before a large-scale mobilization of reserves could be affected, the decision was reached that the Regular Army would need to be more robust and would become Canada's main line of defence rather than the Militia.