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Battlegroup! - The Lessons of the Unfought Battles of the Cold War (Paperback)
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Battlegroup! - The Lessons of the Unfought Battles of the Cold War (Paperback)
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What can we learn from the unfought battles of the Cold War? Could
any supposed British superiority at the unit level, or superior
American equipment and technology, have as much effect on a
possible Warsaw Pact attack as the Bundeswehr's apparent mastery of
formation tactics? The Cold War dominated the global events for
over 40 years. Much of the world genuinely believed that a nuclear
war might break out at any moment. Millions of men were involved.
National budgets strained to equip and sustain them. Much of Europe
had to endure conscription, tank convoys clogging up the roads,
low-flying jet aircraft and large-scale mobilisation exercises. But
what do we really know about the Cold War? More importantly, what
can we learn from it? Battlegroup! investigates the unfought land
battles of the Cold War on the Central Front. It focusses on the
1980s. It looks solely at high-intensity, conventional warfare;
largely from NATO's perspective. It concentrates on the lower
tactical levels: from company to brigade, or perhaps division. It
considers the tactics, organisation and equipment and of the
American, British, West German, French and Soviet armies. The book
discusses what battles would have been fought; then how they would
have been fought; and, lastly, what we can learn from that. The
first section looks at the strategic and operational setting and
the armies involved. The second section looks at the components of
a land force; how those components were organized, and would fight;
and assembles them into battlegroups, brigades and divisions.
Battlegroup! then steps through the tactics of land warfare: delay,
defence and withdrawal; advance, attack and counterattack; fighting
in woods, built up areas and at night; and air support to land
operations. The final section of the book illustrates some of the
possible early engagements of any war on the Central Front. It then
draws out the major observations and conclusions. Battlegroup!
relies heavily on two previously untapped sources, virtually
unknown to English-speaking audiences. They explain much of the
Bundeswehr's highly individual approach to defeating a potential
Warsaw Pact attack. This is not a counterfactual history. It does
not attempt to say who would have won the Third World War. It
explodes some myths. It will be uncomfortable reading for some, and
contentious in places. 'Battlegroup!' will be essential reading for
anyone interested in the warfare of the last decade of the Cold
War: be it as a professional, an academic, or a wargamer.
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