Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-151.70.52.16-20130725195441

Well you definitely copied this from "Red Storm Rising"...anyway rhepoint is that when Tom Clancy wrote the book in 1986, the western powers ha not yet reached the peak pof their military strenght (while in 1989 they ha indeed), and, most of all, there were no diefinitive information about the status of the soviet war machine. If anyone in 1989 had been able to "tour" soviet miliary barracks, depots, shipyards, and to have a taste of soviet military warfare, they would have uncovered the harsh truth: in 1989 soviet armed forces were in near-total disarray; there was a crippling shortage of ammunitions and spare parts, of the many soviet ground formations only few were actually A-class. Soviet warplanes suffered from maintenance problems, pilots were relatively inexperienced, Soviet radars were outdated, their virtual capabilities being in fact...virtual. Soviet warships were in bad shape,and anyway soviet 1-carrier blue waters navy was no match for US 15-supercarriers navy. Soviet submarines suffered form severe problems to their nuclear reactors. Germa army alone, totalled about 550000 men, all equipped with many of the finest pieces of military equipment. The only true point in such a scenario is that soviets may have used nuclear wepaons, and in that case there would have been no winner...but even in that case consider thet in 1989 there were thousands of Patriot batteries in Europe, well capable of neutralizing soviet tactical nukes...and neither the soviets were so mad to launch a fullscale nuclear assault on the US on Day-1 