[Panther Al]

And here is something fun the think about:


The western doctrine was pretty much a mash of soviet/wehrmacht doctrines. So in a way, we was planning on fighting with ideas that was stolen from those two sources. Any way you look at it, the Soviets was no dummies when it came to military thinking. A lot of folks said that jeeps with a TOW missile could hold up all sorts of units. While true to a degree, the Soviets already had a plan for this: after all, they pushed the development of ATGM's before most other folks, and they put as much thought into countermeasures as much as uses of the technology. And there was a huge playbook that was to be used. Encounter situation A? Turn to page three of the plan. So on and so forth. A Soviet drive towards the Channel would be stopped: I don't think the Red Army was that good. But it wouldn't be fun, and it would be a *lot* harder than anyone seems to think.