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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 its own.” While the Soviets worshiped quantity, NATO had a different theology. Their god was quali...

There were many times the Cold War nearly went hot. Key point: Nuclear war would have ended life on Earth. Yet that did not stop many from speculating about how a convention, pre-nuclear conflict would have played out. Forget politics. Forget history. Who knows why the Soviets invaded West Germany in 1989? Perhaps it was a bad grain harvest in the Ukraine. Perhaps they feared the U.S. would strike first. Or, maybe the Soviets simply decided—like many an empire or perhaps even a certain North American republic—that the only way to demonstrate they were not a declining superpower was by go...

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. Here's What You Need To Remember:  Flashpoint Campaigns is Colonel John Boyd's 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 II. And if hostilities erupt today between the United States and either China or Russia (both of ...