Could be. But Reagan was willing to take that chance. You OB "specialists" out there are forgetting one thing:
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NATO asked the United States to deploy intermediate range missiles to Europe in 1978 to counter the deployment of Soviet intermediate range, mobile SS 20 nuclear missiles, and the first Pershing II missiles arrived in the Brigade area in November 1983. By 1985 all three battalions of the 56th Brigade had achieved operational status.
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Ever wonder why the commies in West Germany were always going nutso over the Pershing?
So the Warsaw Pact had a huge numerical advantage over NATO. So why didn't they ever attack? Guesses?
" So the Warsaw Pact had a huge numerical advantage over NATO. So why didn't they ever attack? Guesses?"
The actual issue posed was regarding the US ATTACKING the warsaw pact to intervene in an 'internal' matter of soviet invasion of poland. Therefore the question is regarding getting through the DDR and Soviet forces in east germany to even put troops on the ground in poland. My point was that if the US started world war III it was very possible W Germany itself would be invaded. Did we have the hardware on the ground in germany to invade and pass through East Germany?