I remember it well and good and I was far less worried. I was of age where I could have been drafted should the need have arisen. I was far less worried about it spite of the strength of the Warsaw Pact. Having thousands of nuclear bombs on both sides was a effective deterrence from serious aggression being carried out by any of the major players.This is no fantasy and the enemies of today can be far more insidious as mistrust runs high. It is only nuts to you who does not understand what is going on. You are thinking inside the box on what you see and read. You don’t deal with it bub. You are out to pasture. Be content to live in the past but you will suffer greatly when the future comes and bites you in the posterior and it will.
I don’t even know what you are talking about, there was no draft in the 80s and there wouldn’t have been time for you to deploy to Europe if you had been drafted, as it was, we predicted 25% losses of our reinforcements that would have been flooding in to join our 440,000 American men we already had there, and NATO had another 5 million active, against what you call weaker than the 244,000 to 380,000 of the current Russian army that is stuck back in Russia now.
I guess you were never in the military as your posts and ideas seem to indicate, you really don’t know what it was like or what we were facing, or the level of fear and tension among the people facing Russia then versus now, you have some dreamy little packages of fantasies about then, and about now.