NATO vs Warsaw Pact conventional war in 1985: Who has the edge?

I know when M1A1 started production. What's relevant is when it started being delivered.

"War" will be over in couple of weeks no matter what. So you won't have time to order crash production of any tank or airplane, or even order a increase in ammunition and spare parts production and have them ready before the war is over.

Even fully conventional (something that is 100% impossible) within couple of weeks everyone would be out of ammo and spare parts and fuel, and also the active forces numbers would have dropped a lot by then. Modern high intensity war, as would have happened in Germany, is rather brutal even if fully conventional.
 
One thing I don't understand, in 1985 NATO had great air lift tools, with most being able to hop the pond daily. Then with all the airliners that would be taken over for military service, thats a shit lot of airlift. Granted there would be a few things you can't move though the air, but it should be able to help in keeping the Battle of the Atlanic Mk 3 from going badly for the NATO powers.
 
One thing I don't understand, in 1985 NATO had great air lift tools, with most being able to hop the pond daily. Then with all the airliners that would be taken over for military service, thats a shit lot of airlift. Granted there would be a few things you can't move though the air, but it should be able to help in keeping the Battle of the Atlanic Mk 3 from going badly for the NATO powers.

Its true they could probably move a million troops in a snap.

The problem is keeping them fed and with ammo ...
 
The problem is keeping enough JP4 and Jet-A in Europe to fuel both the tactical operations and the Airlift backflow. That requires tankers from North Africa and the Middle East which plays right into Soviet maritime attacks
 
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