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Puzzling until my puzzler is sore...
I've been looking at/thinking about the Norway region in T2k, and in GDW's TWW series. That got me looking at some OrBats that I've picked up through links here. Somehow, I got to thinking about NATO higher HQs and Norway.
Who's in charge in that (sub)theater? There's 12 brigades of Norwegians (I have a note that they planned to form divisions), a brigade each from Norway, UK, USMC, and NATO, and between 1-3 divisions from the US. And no corps HQ (or heavy artillery)? The best I can get is that Norway falls under NATO's NorthAG, so there's a British general commanding. But he's also commanding up to five corps in northern Germany and Denmark, he's also supposed to talk direct to another dozen or so smaller formations? As far as T2k's scenario, I see several possibilities: 1. The Norwegian higher command is recognized as theater command, they come up with corps-equivalent HQs for North, Central, South Norway. Given the US notoriety for not wanting troops under foreign command, this seems problematic, but seems most logical. 2. As NorthAG is British, a British corps HQ is developed to fill some of the gap? Could be in addition to the above. 3. The US Army, if it contributes divisions, comes up with a corps HQ, covering at least the 6th, 10th, 29th Light Divisions, if they all make it to Norway. 4. Even more radical, the US Marines are allowed to expand the expeditionary brigade that they are already sending, into an expeditionary force (nearly a corps equivalent), and US Army and other forces are given its command. Army divisions under Marine command? Surely I jest! Anyway, I got to thinking about this, as I was wondering about scenarios set in '98, after the American forces are pulled from Norway, and go to Germany. Kept around as a reserve corps, or distributed among the existing corps/armies?
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