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Originally Posted by shahadi
Russia's Secret Weapon to Invade the Baltics and Crush NATO: Soldiers Falling from the Sky
"How would such an invasion unfold? A missile barrage and air strikes at dawn, crippling the Baltic States’ defenses, would precede a large-scale airborne operation supported by a small-scale land intrusion into Lithuania from Russia’s enclave in Kaliningrad.
Before the alliance could understand — let alone react to — what was happening, it’d be over."
Source: The National Interest, (Ulc, Karol: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the...soldiers-19083)
The article fashions a compelling narrative for the making of an interesting scenario or campaign. Check it out, especially those guys and gals into Nato/Russian scenarios.
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The Gods forbid that ever actually happening. I don't think the Baltics are defensible by conventional Western forces, most certainly not today, that leaves little choice but defeat and withdrawl or escalation to nucs. Not my cup of tea at all.