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| The Soviet Union's Insane Plan to Crush NATO in Battle |
| 2015-07-19 |
| [The National Interest] World War II was the most destructive war in human history. Consider that, a conservative estimate of World War II fatalities is 60 million people, or roughly 3 percent of the world's population at the time. Yet, to an even greater extent than World War I, the outcome of World War II seemed to merely plant the seeds for another great power conflict. The battlelines were drawn when the Soviet Union created an Iron Curtain stretching across most of Central and Eastern Europe, while the United States led an alliance system throughout the western half of the continent. For the next four and a half decades, military officers in the United States and the Soviet Union would create and tinker with plans to fight a NATO-Warsaw Pact war. For the United States, this meant seeking in vain to offset the Soviet Union's numerical advantages without resorting to nuclear weapons early in a conflict. Although successive U.S. administrations came into office vowing to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in America's military doctrine, this proved impossible before the Reagan administration, when the revolution in precision-guided weaponry offered Washington a way to defeat the Soviet military juggernaut. Although the Soviet Union's specific war plans, like America's, remains classified, historians have been able to more or less ascertain how the Soviet army would have fought by using archives released by former Warsaw Pact member states like Poland and Czechoslovakia. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Compare the then-Soviet plan to CHINA'S ALLEGED OR REPORTED PLAN AZG THE US ... ... * INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS 2.0: CHINA COULD DEPLOY NUCLEAR WEAPONS [DF-31 ICBMS] IN CUBA, SAYS REPORT, iff the US ever decides to deploy TacNukes to East Asia as hedge agz China. * SAME > CHINA COULD USE NEUTRON BOMB IN CASE OF US INVASION: DUOWEI. * WORLD NEWS > CHINA ASSEMBLING WORLD'S LARGEST SEAPLANE FOR SOUTH CHINA SEA? Asymmetric Warfare. Guam-WESTPAC??? China has repor dev a MICROWAVE-ENERGY WEAPON. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-07-19 22:33 |
| #8 Blaming Brezhnev. Another reason to like Dick Nixon. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-07-19 19:44 |
| #7 Soviets wish Obama had been in power then Last best chance was when Jimmy was in and the Army was in its race riot, pot smoking, AWOL, Donk non-funding period. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-07-19 18:09 |
| #6 Chechyans didn't even have western support, just left over weapons and training from the days when folks were drafted to the red army to fight in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-07-19 14:17 |
| #5 Soviets wish Obama had been in power then |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-07-19 10:16 |
| #4 I believe we saw the ability of the Soviet army in the suppression of Chechnya. It really didn't go well. For decades the failure of Soviet proxies was always blamed on the 'monkeys', to use Russian terminology. That rationale was wiped away in the early debacle of the Chechnya operations. I don't think NATO would have allowed the Soviets the breather they had in that operation to get their act together. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-07-19 08:56 |
| #3 I'm glad we are all friends now. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-19 04:02 |
| #2 Moscow would have been a glowing pile of cinders within the first twenty minutes. The French alone would have seen to that. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-19 00:35 |
| #1 NATO's ridiculous ideas on how the war would work out (Soviet tanks pouring across the border, NATO retreating and commanders clamoring for the release of nuclear weapons, badly needed supply convoys crossing the Atlantic) was a total joke. The Soviets only had one plan: use 90% of its nukes in the first hour of war. Then, drive forward until they got to the Spanish border. |
| Posted by: Thraling Hupoluns2819 2015-07-19 00:27 |