v1 Background: Where/How Should the War Start in Europe?

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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser

How about thinking out of the box and going with a Soviet move into Iran? That scenario became more than academic after Afghanistan, and there was concern that a Soviet invasion of Iran was possible after the fall of the Shah and the Iranian military becoming a shadow of what it had been up until then.

If memory serves, that's what GDW's Third World War wargame series postulated: Iranian civil strife after Ayatollah Khomeni's death results in both superpowers' intervening. From there, US and Soviet forces come into contact, and shortly after that the European mobilizations occur, and the Soviets launch an attack, either to salvage the position, pre-empt a NATO attack, or for some other reason.