Originally Posted by
ORAC
We’ll if you mean throughout the Cold War until the fall of the Wall and the demise of the WP - yes.
Every exercise and plan involved a fighting retreat back to the Channel using the war stocks at hand and going nuclear around day 3.
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That is indeed how most exercises went, but I always thought that was because they started on a Monday morning and had to be over in time for a debrief before happy hour!