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Old 01-05-2010, 08:20 AM
Abbott Shaull Abbott Shaull is offline
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No I think with the effects of moving 2 "Armies" west to take care of the NATO Offensive quite effectively take the wind out of any further Pact Offensive at least in Germany/Poland/Czech for in the near term. There were plenty of people who were upset they had to sudden share their limited resources with more mouths.

After this point more Divisional level commanders would either want to stay put and survive or make it a goal to return what troops they can to their home to survive. If they didn't come to this conclusion by themselves lower unit commanders would and either break away from their parent unit and/or break down in discipline to spawn more marauder bands over Eastern Europe. As for higher commands, for the most part on both sides they have effectively cease to exist and their troops are being absorb into sub-units.

Remember by 2000 many of the Soviet in Southern Germany and Poland out right refused to move against the US XI Corps and 3rd German Army. Lot of this is due to inability to move the entire Division/Army for variety of reason ranging from lack of fuel and/or transport. Remember even the 5th Mechanized Division last month before they were wiped out, had leapfrog units with in the Division as they had to make more fuel, even with stockpile of fuel to begin with. Or the Pact units didn't want to leave their source of food either with no way of knowing if they would be able to return. Another reason why the units that did respond did so slow from the South.

I believe that the plan was for the 4th Guard Tank Army was to make an attack in Southern Germany with the 22nd Cavalry Army beefing up the Baltic Front to tie up the US XI Corps and Third German Army. This could explain why many Soviet units in Southern Germany and Poland refused to move. They knew of the plan and didn't want to fight to re-take areas they had already control. The 3rd Soviet Shock Army even was slow to react, they held areas that the 4th Guard Tank Army.
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