So, what this article is saying is that the status of US Forces, Europe has not really changed in the early 1980s.
If I recall, we were supposed to bottleneck them in the Fulda Gap.
But, I might be a little cloudy on my history.
That’s what the Davy Crockett was for, until the Pentagon realized how bad of an idea putting nukes and subsequent escalation in the hands of the average lieutenant was.