u/Ungrammaticus

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Ingen brag i Gammel Brabrand

De sidste par uger har der gentagne gange ikke været nogen høje knald herude i Gl. Brabrand. Der har ingen eksplosioner været og det har lydt som om der ikke blev skudt.

Klokken 5 i nat var der intet højlydt bum, og fem minutter efter kom der heller ikke et.

Er der nogen der ved hvad det ikke kan have været?!?

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u/Ungrammaticus — 4 days ago

Did NATO command at any point during the Cold War believe that they had a plausible chance of parrying a purely conventional Soviet offensive into Western Europe?

By “conventional” I mean with no nuclear warfare employed by either side.

My layman‘s pop-history understanding of the military situation is that the general consensus was that Soviet ground forces could crush the opposing NATO forces handily in a purely conventional confrontation.

I can guess at a thousand reasons military people in the West would have liked voters and policymakers to believe this, so I’m wondering how and whether it aligns with actual strategic assessments.

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u/Ungrammaticus — 2 months ago