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| This Is How The Green Berets Planned To Take Out Soviet's Special Forces |
| 2019-12-12 |
| [Special Ops] Had the Cold War turned hot, there would have been no escape for the U.S. garrison in West Berlin. Marooned in a city more than 100 miles inside Communist East Germany, the U.S. Berlin Brigade‐and the British and French garrisons as well‐would certainly have been overwhelmed by Soviet and East German troops. Their presence helped keep half of Berlin free from Communist rule. But it was no secret that theirs was a suicide mission. Yet there was a unique American unit with an even more hazardous mission: a small Special Forces detachment whose job it would during wartime to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Soviets and their puppet armies. That sentence bears repeating: Deep inside East Germany, in the midst of a vast Soviet military and secret police apparatus, a small group of U.S. commandos would attempt to blow up Russian supply depots and lead local resistance groups. The phrase "suicide mission" doesn’t even apply. The unit had many names over the Cold War. But as James Stejskal, a veteran of the detachment, describes in his book Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite 1956-1990, they always knew what they were getting into. "They were aware of the odds against them and the threat posed by the Warsaw Pact forces stationed just kilometers away. Despite that, no one wavered in their commitment to face and deter the Soviet war machine." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #14 Don't forget The Deplorables |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-12 21:24 |
| #13 Now, now, Frank! If someone took the time to post it on the InterWebs, then it must be true. Gladio was controlled by the military secret service Sismi and worked in close collaboration with the CIA. But apparently Gladio was also in league with the Mafia, the fascists and the Catholic Church. Also the Illuminati, the Grays, the Reptilian Shapeshifters and other aliens to horrible to contemplate. OMG, what if Trump himself is an alien? Seriously, have any of you seen a full-body MRI that would tell us he is really human? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-12-12 20:51 |
| #12 I know! I remember! We all died. Tool |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-12 20:34 |
| #11 Gladio isn't agitprop. It was for real. "During the Cold War secret armies in all West European states prepared themselves for possible Soviet invasion. An ETH study was presented last week that shows how these hidden groups operated and did not even shrink from terror attacks against their own people. http://archiv.ethlife.ethz.ch/e/articles/sciencelife/NatoGeheimarmee.html Gladio did not flinch from cowardly terrorist attacks against its own people. The population was to be unsettled so they would demand more security from the state. By using false trails and exerting control over the the judiciary, Gladio succeeded in laying the blame on the political opponents." |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-12-12 20:25 |
| #10 All the troll does is word search for "Herb" or "erb" and get his panties in a wad :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-12 18:25 |
| #9 Oh, look, Herb falls for anti-western agitprop again. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-12-12 17:01 |
| #8 Erb, a plagarist? Gee, attribute to Wiki, wouldja. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-12-12 16:03 |
| #7 Oh look, a spelling flame. Haven't seen one of those for a while. Operation Gladio is the codename for clandestine "stay-behind" operations of armed resistance that was planned by the Western Union (WU), and subsequently by NATO, for a potential Warsaw Pact invasion and conquest in Europe. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-12-12 14:49 |
| #6 ^You sure? Not even Herb, never mind. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2019-12-12 10:30 |
| #5 Operation Gladius was in a Star Trek video game. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-12 10:27 |
| #4 If you're referring to Operation Gladio, you've got the facts wrong |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-12-12 10:15 |
| #3 NATO also had its own stay-behind army it its own territory: Operation Gladius. Only this one committed false flag terror attacks, and allowed identified terror attacks to proceed. Yes, this happened. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2019-12-12 10:08 |
| #2 Plan B: Get the Rus to assign all the Spetznaz to the Wagner Group. Given their casualty rate, problem solved. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2019-12-12 09:16 |
| #1 Working behind ebemy lines, working with resistance, was the SF first mission. It was like the OSS and the Jedburgh teams of WW II in Europe. It's the context of Robin Sage, and why the guys have to be fluent in a foreign language. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2019-12-12 08:35 |