[QUOTE=pr00ne;11403356][QUOTE=Finningley Boy;11403071]
Originally Posted by
pr00ne
Nope. Saw it as an idealogical stand off with both sides claiming they needed to be on full scale military alert as their was a threat of the other side invading.
We knew at the time that there was no chance of NATO invading the East, and we now know from post cold war docs and revelations that there was no chance of the Soviets and Warsaw Pact invading the West, but we didn’t know that then and the threat felt real.
As an aside I went to look at one of my QRA target folders, an East German SAM complex, and was rather disturbed at the civilian housing that my bucket of US instant sunshine would have vaporised- sobering.
Indeed, a period of great mistrust. I drew a blank from a Flt Lt out in Gatow when I suggested the status of East and West Berlin could not continue indefinitely, that was in 1988.
FB