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Originally Posted by natehale1971
We know that the Summer Offensive was to provide cover for the heaviliy classified Operation Reset (the acquisition of the plans and prototypes for the polish designed 'Reset' program) being carried out by the DIA...
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No, no, no, no, no, no and NO!!!
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!
There is nowhere at all where it is written that the offensive was undertaken with Reset as anything more than a footnote!!!!
Reset was planned AFTER the offensive commenced and took advantage of the chaos the offensive generated. THAT IS ALL!!!
Everyone is free to do what they will in their own game universe, but it's absolutely NOT canon now, in the future, or at any time in the past.
Therefore there is no justification for tying the overall operation into what is for all intents and purposes a sideshow.
The Pact counter offensive (as I have illustrated previously in other threads) was originally intended to be their own Spring offensive. Nato simply stepped off the mark before the Pact which forced Pact commanders to rapidly redeploy and radically alter their plans.
There is ample evidence of this if you look through
all the source material and pay attention to unit strengths, movements over the following few months, and unit histories on both sides of the lines.