30 August, 1990
3008901450Z

Russo looked out the open door of his Blackhawk as the pilot turned southeast over Bielfeld, flying over dozens of destroyed vehicles. Fields cratered like a moonscape. The pilot then followed the trace of the battlefield. When they arrived in the Kassel/Fulda/Erfurt ...

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23 August, 1990
2308900900Z

Gen Russo wass pacing in his office. He was pissed that the Russians' were not agreeing to a ceasefire in place with a gradual withdraw to pre-war borders. The talks were being mediated by the Swiss, with no success.

“Ok” said Russo under his breath. He looked at the ...

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6-19 August, 1990
1908902241z

After two weeks, Phase 2 was almost complete. As much as he wanted to let the Russians' and East Germans' personnel truck out of the Erfurt Pocket, leaving their equipment behind (this was proposed through the Swiss), the Russian response was an attempted breakout ...

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30 July-6 August, 1990
0730901130Z

It was the first time since the start of the war that Gen Russo had all of his Army Group, Air Force, Navy, Logistics, and new Allied Commanders in one place. Yes, it was a security nightmare to pull it off, but they did.

There would be no pre-brief. No ...

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26-30 July, 1990
0730900125Z

Russo held the communique in his hands. In short it stated that the Czech Republic would be withdrawing from the current operations of the Warsaw Pact. He lowered the paper in his hands, sat down, and called his J3. “Bill, get in here. We may have an opportunity here to ...

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23-26 July, 1990
0726902110Z

SACEUR was standing outside his office door which led into the Ops Center. He stared at the circular far wall which was taken up by four large displays labeled: NORCOM on the left, which included Norway, Denmark and now the Finns and Swedes as the Russians' stated they ...

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July 23rd, 1990
0723900752Z

Four days. Four very long days. The Air Force and Airborne Operation went off first. The Air Force took a beating hitting the airfields but succeeded in surpressing the ADA assets all along the various DZ's. Each one of the objective areas were taken with acceeptable ...

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Chapter 4
“Poking the Bear”

16 July, 1990 0505hrs
0716900505Z

Russo turned to his J2 as he looked up from the recent JSTARS and Satellite data. Ivan and the WP had committed all their Category A formations and some Cat B. 17 more divisions made up of Cat B and Cat C units were in Poland moving ...

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Chapter 3
“The Hammer has to Fall”

0430hrs 12 July, 1990
0712900430Z

Eight days into the war and the lines were holding, some areas better than others.

As expected, Ivan hit the forward deployed elements of NorthAG and CentAG. 2nd GTA, 20th GA, and the 3rd Shock Army attacked along the axis ...

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