Kamatchaka peninsula invasion

Yun-shuno

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Hey y'all I had been looking for the name of a plan or policy that dealt with invading the Kamatchaka peninsula in the event of the Russians starting WW3. I believe there was an official in the Reagan administration who proposed it?

Does anyone know who that is? And what it is?
 
Are you sure it was an invasion? Seems odd to invade somewhere which is almost cut-off from the rest of the world, when you could just bomb the naval facilities.
 

Yun-shuno

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Are you sure it was an invasion? Seems odd to invade somewhere which is almost cut-off from the rest of the world, when you could just bomb the naval facilities.
I don't know whether it was an invasion or simply a plan to launch counter strikes I know there was someone in the Reagan administration who advocated launching some sort of counter attack on the Russian pacific coast.
 
Invading Kamchatka is a bad strategic move:

-Kamchatka is very cold
-Kamchatka is very rugged and mountainous
-There's absolutely nothing in Kamchatka (not even a lot of minerals) and the previous point would make it hard to break out of (also, you'd have to go even further north and through some of the tundra and taiga, which is almost impossible to do in the summer and is very very cold in the winter)

You'd be better off invading at Vladivostok or the mouth of the Amur, and since Reagan's advisors weren't idiots, I'd assume that an attack on the Russian Pacific coast would be directed there.
 
There were a bunch of airbases there . Capturing those, would strip the outer defense, and give the attacker the option of rehabbing them for his own use.

My guess is any plans like that are still kept secret. You may not find any info.
 
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Yun-shuno

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Invading Kamchatka is a bad strategic move:

-Kamchatka is very cold
-Kamchatka is very rugged and mountainous
-There's absolutely nothing in Kamchatka (not even a lot of minerals) and the previous point would make it hard to break out of (also, you'd have to go even further north and through some of the tundra and taiga, which is almost impossible to do in the summer and is very very cold in the winter)

You'd be better off invading at Vladivostok or the mouth of the Amur, and since Reagan's advisors weren't idiots, I'd assume that an attack on the Russian Pacific coast would be directed there.
Can you tell me the name of the plan?
 

SRBO

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It's garbage for anything apart from strategic purposes. It is even more volatile than Japan when it comes to earthquakes and volcanoes, that's why there isn't a road to the other lands. Like some said you just bomb Petropavlovsk and go around it to land in Magadan. The entire Far East is actually the trash part of Russia due to permafrost, the instant you cross it you get to the flat lands that are better
 
John Lehman, secretary of the Navy under Reagan, had a proposal for invading Russia from the east. I dont think it was ever a specific plan other than a ridiculous idea. While Kamchatka would have been hit, the main invasion would have started at Vladivostok.

Also, regarding Kamchatka, while the Soviets had a major naval base and presumably air bases, IIRC, the terrain and climate was so difficult they had to be supplied by sea through the sea of Okhotsk.
 
And maybe not enough WOMEN! :cool:

Without those the men may not be enthusiastic for the mission.;)
when comrade has bears.. who of needing womans .. also so cold that maybe hard to tell difference
in soviet Russia gulag motivates you :)
 
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