That was a lot of good discussion, all!
I was always willing to ignore the whole US deployment to Yugo. as silly IMC, but when you point to the timing with the NATO offensive south, it suddenly makes sense. So I am now in the same boat as Raellus, hopefully not a boat about to contact someone's sub in the eastern Med!
Sidebar: something that's influencing me is a game of Third World War (GDW) that I remember playing within the last 6 years or so-- about 4 weeks into the big war, NATO sent some of the still-arriving Americans into Croatia (7th LD, maybe the 101st or 10th MtnD?) to help the Italians stave off a Pact drive there. It wasn't much force, but it was enough to stall a secondary drive. I was the Pact player, and that was definitely a disappointment that I remember, even as I thought, "Why is he doing that?!"
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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