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Probably "Seven Days to the Rhine": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine Ho
by arethuza 3y ago
Probably "Seven Days to the Rhine":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_to_the_River_Rhine
However, that was for a single exercise/simulation and the Warsaw Pact militaries probably had loads of other plans. My understanding is that militaries plan all manner of scenarios, some of which turn out to be less than great ideas e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable
- hef19898 3y agoNATO had plans to defend against the Warsaw oact, NATO had plans to invade them. And the other way round, nothing special about it.
- arethuza 3y agoReal problems can occur when you only have one plan: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/ Particularly if that plan, as Daniel Ellsberg described, would kill about a billion people.
- grotorea 3y agoNATO had invasion plans? I thought the plans were defensive since the Warsaw Pact was expected to have a superior land force.