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Originally Posted by ToughOmbres
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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But Lodz was a clearly defined raid target of Operation Reset due to a certain computer expert, named Dr. Czerwinski and his development of the Modular Computer Chip Surrogate (MMCS). In
Free City of Krakow (p. 4-5) the job of 5ID was sketched out as such:
"The final offensive in Poland was launched by the 3rd German Army and the US 11th Corps in the spring of 2000, an attack which was expected to clear the Baltic coast as far as the mouth of the Wisla river of enemy forces. Under cover of this offensive, the Special Forces B Team code-named Strike Zulu had moved off toward the city of Lodz on a mission of its own behind enemy lines. Its movement was masked by the fury of 5th Division's attack."
So basically, 5ID conducted some form of spoiling attack, in order for a SFODB team to make it to Lodz and back. Why this wouldn't be a ODA team augmented by tech expertise is beyond me, but that's what it says.