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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 27, 2020 7:35:04 GMT -8
Maybe I’ll pick back up Red Storm Rising. I had gotten 21% into it and stalled.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 27, 2020 7:48:54 GMT -8
I forgot to mention that Greyhound is another…
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 27, 2020 8:54:11 GMT -8
Thank you. It's funny how I couldn't put that into words. But that's the problem I'm having, for sure.
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Post by timothylane on Jul 27, 2020 9:06:35 GMT -8
I would say that Red Storm Rising read like a history that fortunately never happened. Of course, if you like reading history, that's no problem. But not everyone does, especially the specific category of military history.
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Post by artraveler on Jul 27, 2020 10:19:54 GMT -8
Most of Red Storm reads like the briefing documents, a little more rounded out, we were required to read before deployment to Germany for REFORGER III and IV in the 70s and as such it strikes home to me. The start of Red Storm is an Islamic attack on a Soviet refinery that destroys about 50% of the capacity for refined products. The Politburo is faced to either admit the problem and ask for assistance from the west or seize the opportunity and take the oil from the mideast. The attack on NATO is intended as a diversion to draw NATO assets away from the mideast while the Soviets make the occupation of Iraq and Iran an accomplished fact.
Red Storm is interesting as a policy document suggesting that the Soviets had more capability than they actually had. There are two major routs into the west from East Germany. One is one the north Germany plains and into Netherlands the other is through the Fuda Gap. The preferred option, and the one taken in Red Storm is through the Fuda Gap. The primary reason was that although Fuda was not the best tank country it also was not the best country for aircraft. In most of the options we gamed attack aircraft like the A-10 dominated the battlefield and in a couple of those the Soviet response was nuclear to take out air bases. For the early 70s it was very scary stuff.
That the Soviets could field two armies, one to invade NATO and the other to invade the Middle East is improbable but an interesting idea.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 27, 2020 12:03:58 GMT -8
Okay. Thanks for the detailed background. I might trudge forward.
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