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The computer game Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm simulates a hypothetical Warsaw Pact invasion of West Germany in 1989.

Red Storm is a tactical simulation of a hypothetical Warsaw Pact invasion of West Germany in 1989. God favors the side with the bigger battalions, says the old military proverb. The Soviet Union didn’t believe in God, but heaven knows, it did swear by the bigger battalions. So what if some of those numerous battalions had obsolete equipment, or soldiers and officers who didn’t speak the same language? As proclaimed by Stalin, himself a former Communist deity, “quantity has a quality all ...

Simulation Shows Why Stopping a Soviet Invasion of Europe Wouldn’t Be Easy It is easy to forget that the late 1980s were the high point of the World War That Never Was. Heres What You Need To Remember:  Flashpoint Campaigns is Colonel John Boyds famous OODA loop in game form, in which the side that has the quicker decision cycle will achieve victory. This is how Napoleon defeated his enemies. This is why the German army so often defeated the Red Army on the tactical level in World War...