[Psalm 73]

There was a book written in the 80's about a Soviet-Block attack against Western Europe. After a few days the attack bogged down and they tried to regain the initiative with a nuclear strike against Birmingham England - the result was a British nuclear strike against Minsk, which ended up bringing down the Soviet leadership.

Couls Putin try to regain the initiative with a similar nuclear strike?

[wally_bert]

I read that book several times.

[HombreSecreto]

Remember that book - ah, the Cold War 80s - good times.

What is old is new again...

Rise up Cold Warriors! It’s our time again!

[OKSooner]

Yes, The Third World War, IIRC.

It was an interesting read.

Of course the author would have had no way to anticipate a rotten corrupt ****** ****** like Brandon and his posse, or a former KGB officer gone "crackers".

Yes, this would be a good time for Vlad to... fall down or something.

[Pox]

Team Yankee.

[SunkenCiv]

“The Third World War”, Gen. Sir John Hackett, interesting at the time.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I read a “review” of that book years ago.

It was obvious the “reviewer” hadn’t read the book, because he or she mentioned it was a nuclear attack on Birmingham, Alabama.

[C19fan]

I read that book in the 80s. It was written by British Army General Hackett. Hackett was an officer with the 1st British Airborne at Arnhem. He was wounded and captured by the Germans. His story was part of “A Bridge Too Far”.
In his book the first step was a Soviet invasion of Yugoslavia with the US sending in troops to support the Tito regime. Eerie similarity to the situation in Ukraine.

[redgolum]

Red Storm Rising.

Good book