That was the biggest fear NATO had during the cold war. Bodies on the front-line.
They were far better geared than the WP, but the kill ratio needed to keep on top of any WP attack was something stupid like 50:1.
Now the Coalition forces in the Gulf War in 91 didn't even reach that number against a army that was basiclly in retreat by the time the ground forces got involved.
The general thought going around Germany if the cold war ever did go hot but with no nukes involved was the WP would reach the channel ports within 7 days thus stopping alot of reinforcements getting to the front.
The only way NATO would be able to stop or shall I say slow the advance would be with tac-nukes. NATO thus would be damned if they did and damned if they didn't.
Last edited by Ramjam; 06-20-2009 at 06:54 PM.
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