[doorgunner69]

my serving on the outer fringes of Military Intelligence led me to believe that I had been right in my 1979 assessment that Soviet power, and American weakness, would reach a sweet spot for the Soviets around 1984/85 it was a window where the Soviets had to either jump

Funny, how that echoes "Alas Babylon", though the dates were quite a bit off in the book, but the premise the same.

[ansel12]

By the way”assessment” meant my personal opinion, my personal “assessment”, nobody was hiring me or paying me to be an expert in the mid and late 1970s.

I used to read like Tom Clancy and was obsessed with that material, I was not surprised during the mid 1980s to learn that I knew a lot and was right, it even raised some suspicious eyebrows on some of the people in the MI Battalion that my unit worked for.

I think Clancy ran into the same problem, “where are you getting this information”?