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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 5186508" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>I watched an interview with Robert McNamara before he died when he talked about how 30 years later after the fall of the Soviet Union it was discovered that the Russians had suppled the Cubans with according to reports a thousand short range nuclear tipped rockets. Needed to say military planners were shocked at the discovery. </p><p></p><p>Another thing they were shocked to discover and it was something they had never thought about. Russian military plans called for a nuclear strike on key US military and governmental facilities ahead of an armored invasion of Western Europe. One target nobody in the Pentagon gave a moment's thought to.....The Altoona Curve in Pennsylvania . Without the kind of air lift capability you have today a sizeable majority of US heavy armor going to the East Coast for shipment to Europe would be going by rail through the Curve making it among the first places to go bye bye.... When the Pentagon found out about it...it was "holy feces".</p><p></p><p>Needless to say....you might THINK you know what your adversaries next move will be....trouble is...you don't always KNOW what his next move will be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 5186508, member: 58386"] I watched an interview with Robert McNamara before he died when he talked about how 30 years later after the fall of the Soviet Union it was discovered that the Russians had suppled the Cubans with according to reports a thousand short range nuclear tipped rockets. Needed to say military planners were shocked at the discovery. Another thing they were shocked to discover and it was something they had never thought about. Russian military plans called for a nuclear strike on key US military and governmental facilities ahead of an armored invasion of Western Europe. One target nobody in the Pentagon gave a moment's thought to.....The Altoona Curve in Pennsylvania . Without the kind of air lift capability you have today a sizeable majority of US heavy armor going to the East Coast for shipment to Europe would be going by rail through the Curve making it among the first places to go bye bye.... When the Pentagon found out about it...it was "holy feces". Needless to say....you might THINK you know what your adversaries next move will be....trouble is...you don't always KNOW what his next move will be. [/QUOTE]
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