Too easy to say on paper they were dismantled or demilled/scraped for the SALT agreement folks and then let em travel overland in a number of countries experiencing massive chaos and anarchy where bribes aka "bashish" is indeed a way of life out of necessity.......
Course the good part of all this is it's just my opinion, perception etc etc......Hope I'm wrong.
Stay Safe Ern and have a good weekend...
They will wait in the hills untill they can hit a massing of troops.
The guys on post better shoot first and ask questions later.
They definitely may hug our belt buckles tightly in the scenario you laid out. They could wait until we have our troops massed (spring) and try to walk something into our bases.