Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
by arethuza on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:30AM
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Probably "Seven Days to the 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.:
Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
by hef19898 on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:31AM
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NATO had plans to defend against the Warsaw oact, NATO had plans to invade them. And the other way round, nothing special about it.
Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
by arethuza on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:48AM
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Real problems can occur when you only have one plan:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/
Particularly if that plan, as Daniel Ellsberg described, would kill about a billion people.
Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
by hef19898 on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:49AM
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Basically THE plan then?
Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
by Vecr on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:39AM
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SIOP, the Single Integrated Operation Plan.
Re:The $1.5T Nuclear Weapons Program You've Never Heard Of
by grotorea on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:57PM
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NATO had invasion plans? I thought the plans were defensive since the Warsaw Pact was expected to have a superior land force.
I have read somewhere that after the fall of the soviet union, some historians got access to some invasion plans for western europe. Apparently those plans excluded France and the UK.