5th ID's drive into Poland
NATO intel could have overestimated the size and operational status of WP forces in the area and decided on a spoiling attack.
Alternatively the 5th could have been sacrificed to act as a magnet for WP forces in order to allow Operation Reset to proceed and allow the 8th ID to slip around and bypass Kaliningrad, leaving the Soviet enclave to "die on the vine." NATO and Free Baltic state forces could then pick it off at their leisure.
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