Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
wm---you mentioned a number of posts ago that USAREUR/USECOM did not doubt they could stop a Soviet attack and I responded that I was not sure you understood the conditions in Europe up to 1989 and why Reforger was doomed to fail because USECOM could not hold the Soviet up long enough to get US based troops over in time.

This link confirms what I mentioned when I indicated that it was up to selected SF teams to try to slow them down until help arrived.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article..._backpack_nuke
Nice try but your FP article does not prove your contention. The fact that US SF teams trained to use SADMs in eastern Europe does not prove that EUCOM did not believe it could beat a Soviet /WP invasion of Western Europe. What do you know about MADMs and TADMs? Plans existed for their use as well. BTW, I believe the US stopped making/deploying SADMs in 1989.