WWIII timeline (70s and 80s)

WWIII timeline (70s and 80s)

A Grenade dodged

The Liberal Party's campaign rally was held to proclaim the candidacies of eight Senatorial bets as well as the candidate for the Mayoralty race in Manila. The man who wanted to bomb the Liberal Party Campaign rally was apprehended, this would mean that the second term of Marcos would end his second term on December 30, 1972, but something sinister would follow..



The TL would involve this being implemented by the soviets...
 
The TL would involve this being implemented by the soviets...
I’m thinking it was the Soviets gaming out a scenario, right?

The plan was “Seven Days to the River Rhine,” including using tactical nukes against NATO members West Germany, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, and Holland (since these govts themselves did not have nukes, although I’m thinking the U.S. base in Frankfurt certainly did), on the dare and gamble that NATO itself would not use nukes back.

All to soften up for an immediate conventional invasion of West Germany.
 
I’m thinking it was the Soviets gaming out a scenario, right?

The plan was “Seven Days to the River Rhine,” including using tactical nukes against NATO members West Germany, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, and Holland (since these govts themselves did not have nukes, although I’m thinking the U.S. base in Frankfurt certainly did), on the dare and gamble that NATO itself would not use nukes back.

All to soften up for an immediate conventional invasion of West Germany.
The Americans, British and French all had tactical nukes all over West Germany. Aircraft bombs, ground launched missiles and artillery shells scattered far and wide. Soviet use in a conflict has an extremely high chance of engaging them by accident and counter use likely comes into play. It's impossible for the Soviets to try to not end up engaging the nuclear forces of those three powers while hitting targets through Western Europe.

Regardless, 7 Days is a Polish plan - no one has seen the Soviet ones - with Polish staff planners speculating on a war opened by a NATO first strike and then an eventual Soviet led counteroffensive. I doubt it has any relevance to the real Soviet first strike nuclear or conventional war plans. The Poles wouldn't be trusted with knowledge of them.
 
. . 7 Days is a Polish plan . .
And Hawks on the Polish side wanting to show off, get attention — and resources — to take more of a leading role in large military exercises, etc, is realistic human nature.

And for timelines which need a full or limited war between the U.S. and USSR, the role of hawks in satellite countries (for example, by giving overly optimistic estimates of the quickness of success)

is probably something which can be used as a major contributing factor more often.
 
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