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By the spring of 2000 Europe's armies have adapted into their new "military cantonment administration" system. There are practically no civilian authorities left. Many military units recruit large numbers of the local population in order to keep their forces in strength, and stragglers are attached into units regardless of nationality. Therefore an American unit, for example, can contain quite a few former NATO and Warsaw Pact troops in addition to the Americans themselves. The units' official names (brigades, divisions etc.) no longer bear any meaning on the unit's true size.
At the beginning of summer the German 3rd Army, spearheaded by the U.S. XI Corps, sets off from its areas into one of the war's last strategic offensives.
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