Make me wander if this was the same military strategy that the Soviets would have deployed take over Europe. Throw thousands of tanks and ground troops towards Europe and watch those countries fold. The US developed tactics and weapons to defeat this. Based upon that it would have been a slaughter of Soviet equipment and personnel.
Make me wander if this was the same military strategy that the Soviets would have deployed take over Europe. Throw thousands of tanks and ground troops towards Europe and watch those countries fold. The US developed tactics and weapons to defeat this. Based upon that it would have been a slaughter of Soviet equipment and personnel.
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At the time the US had no tactics to defeat the Russians - it would have basically been a delaying action until the first ICBMs were launched by both sides.
US forces had very poor tactical communication often passing in the clear exact directions to their positions, while the Russians used 4-chan encrypted PPM systems and most tactical messages were passed using a 5 day pad (AABGF RFABF etc).
From where I sat in West Germany the Russians were 4km away. We monitored them continuously 24/7.
We faced 4 Russian Shock Armies (a division of forces no longer used) fully mechanized with 100,000 troops each and a total between them of 35,000 tanks. When they turned on their SA radars, we had 15 seconds before tactical nuclear detonation at our position.
When the Armies came through Fulda Gap, their first rest stop was 60km behind us. (We were unarmed basically.) Behind them would have come still more Armies as needed. A total mismatch. The slaughter would have been of NATO forces.
With the battlefield use of tactical nukes by both sides the Russians would have been at the English Chanel in 72 hours.
That’s how it was then.