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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
In Sir John Hackett's The Third World War, there's an ugly scene about an airfield where several dependent flights are taking off, which comes under artillery rocket attack.
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Team Yankee touch on this without going into detail, but when units dependents were rushed after air raid, the author left things to the imagination.
Yeah pulling dependent out early regardless if you plan on staging attack or expecting one could lead the other side to conclude that you were preparing to attack. The next worse than ordering Reforger Exercise out of the blue, without months of very public planning that usually went into them yearly. Either would send the Soviet and allies to high readiness. Interesting thing while either side was on high readiness, it seem the Air Forces on both side would aircraft that would suddenly suffer some type of failure, typically induce by pilots playing the deadliest form of chicken...