ヨーロッパの軍事は多国籍でなんとかなる程度だ。一つ一つの国の軍事力はたかが知れてる。問題なのはヨーロッパ外の関係国、例えばアメリカ，ロシア，トルコ等が欧州諸国よりも強力な軍事力を誇っている事が問題だな。

かつてドイツのメルケル首相が日本にＮＡＴＯ加盟を勧めた事が有ったのを覚えているだろうか？KZbinに有るから気が有ったら見て欲しい。このままアメリカの力が衰えていくと、本当にＮＡＴＯの一部を日本が肩代わりする日が来てもおかしくない。

I like how their battleplan is literally the exact same battleplan as Germany 1943-1945. "We need a total forward defense with no retreat and we need an impossibly large KTD ratio"

bloke is looking in the wrong direction

Nearly 40 years later, and not much has changed.

2:02 thats a historical inaccuracy

I was added to USAREUR a year later west of the Rhine, 2nd Brigade 8th Infantry Division. Our orders were on red alert was to get our Abrams the way to Schlitz northwest of Fulda in less than 12 hours. That was all in accord to the boys in Dexheim engineering us a pontoon bridge us across the Rhine along with 2nd brigade of 4 Arty, 2 INF regiments, an MLRS component, ADA, and 208th support battalion across that river. One thing about these models of ground invasion, they never factored in the German refugee influx coming from the east. All roads would have been full of people fleeing the Soviets onslaught with little traffic getting through. It would have been X-country for us trying to dodge any airstrikes........I doubt we could have made it to our rendezvous as planned which was the town graveyard in Schlitz by the way. In all practicality our best defensive position was the west bank of the Rhine or south of the Main river aligned with our 1st brigade counterparts.

Kinda genius really having the soldiers families live in Europe

Funny, the German engineer obviously has some Polish heritage: his family name Szczech comes from a village Szczechy not far from where I was born. And Polish officer is not general, but colonel. Poles or Germans, all very glad now that it is all over.

An important point made here that many in the US forget nowadays: NATO was and still is the key to US prosperity and wealth. Want to drop out of NATO? Say byebye to your exports abroad.

Is this why europes Healthcare ia free?

A professional military, intelligent leadership, understanding of limited capabilities and realistic expectations. What really throws me off is how professional they are and soldierly they conduct themselves. I feel like I have been cheated, politics and destructive ideologies and leadership who are sympathetic to the enemy cause and idelogy.

When Propaganda was fun! No GPS..just the finger on the map method.

The Red Army stopped being called that in 1946.

"When two tribes go to war...."

I m looking at this and I think: Gulf War 91, Ukraine 24. The M1s, the F16s, the Howlitzers.

I, was stationed in Korea when this show aired and in Germany 1992-1994.Scouts Out!

Excellent documentary. Please upload more of these if you’ve got them.

*Nobodys know Soviet Union Ends in 3 years left at time...*

Funny to watch this 2024, 2 years after Russias onslaught

WARNO

Reagan's NATO tough strategy worked 4 yrs later the USSR dissolved itself! and was soundly defeated without firing a shot in anger. BTW those West European "Peaceniks" were funded by the KGB with about 20 million per yr in "donations" some undercover KGB officers actually led "Peace marches" in Europe! This program doesn't mention the Pershing 2's and Cruise Missiles were a Counter deployment of the USSR's previous deployment of SS 20's Missiles in Eastern Europe without of course any public opposition or consultation in those Communist occupied states.

28:22 he is right but for short wars only, what if enemy doesnt gave up, he mentioned barbarosa , but hwat happened after that germans lost badly , so numbers do play imp role

47:20 - heh, he said 'doodoo'

The EU can defend itself. Get the USA out!

598th transportation company, Mannheim, 85-87. Things were a lot calmer in my area.

Watching this in 2024 and seeing how back in the cold war both sides were able to avoid WW3 with all the raw untested nerves that those of us over 50 remember. There is no excuse for our leaders in the West to have us dangling over WW3 now. I totally blame the Western governments, mainly my government of the US, for bringing us back to the brink. I blame both political parties in the US for this. First when Russia was on its knees after the collapse of the Soviet Union our government should have extended the hand of friendship and did everything possible to help them rise as a friend and not an enemy. This was a calculation by the military industrial complex and the banks that saw no profit in peace so we did everything to provoke Russia by expanding NATO. There are hundreds of thousands of dead Russians and Ukrainians that died for no reason due to this madness. This has to stop!

34:50 Look at these fools. Same as in WWII, same as today. We have the better technology, the enemy's advantage only lies in numbers, we are sophisticated, they are barbaric hordes. When talking about the T-64 he of course does not mention how it was the first tank with composite armour and an autoloader where the west was still lagging behind.

OFP :)

The Cold War lasted for 46 years (1945-1991) but it never went hot in Europe The post-Cold War, or so-called 'End of History' era lasted for 31 years (1991-2022, could be even shorter if you count Kosovo 1998, Georgia 2008, Eastern Ukraine 2014, etc. But for argument's sake let's say it's 2022 when the whole of Europe started re-arming again) So... maybe we were better off in a Cold War status? Let's go back to Cold War then. I liked the constant threat of Nuclear Armageddon, which kept people real, made us learn to live in the moment more, and less whiny or hypocritical. Plus the music was way better back in the 80s!

One could deduce that those nuclear weapons being placed in Germany that those folks protested so much over, did in fact provide the deterrence they were purposed for. With the NATO vs Russia debate now becoming hot again, I hope these lessons will be remembered.

pst... its dover...

In Tom Clancy's RED STORM RISING, USAF stealth fighters attacked all the major bridges over the Elbe River, trapping the second echelon of Soviet troops poised to invade West Germany.

Europe in those days were a bunch of whining babies. They don't want American nukes, but don't want them to leave either. We dont need you. Oh, we need you. Make up your mind.

4:18뭐하노ㅋ

Europe/The West both won and lost WW2 and The Cold War, which was a phony war anyway.

Never ,,,,ever..trust Anything reported on PBS...

Well, it's a good thing the Soviets didn't greenlight an attack against Europe in 1982-1983. Because I have inside information pertaining to the influence that the 509th Airborne Combat Team (Italy) would have rendered upon the situation. Reportedly, if you ask anyone that served in the 509th during that time, the Soviets would have been stopped cold in the Fulda gap, after they had parachuted in and set up defensive positions awaiting the arrival of the Russians. Yes, without question, the 509th would have been the difference if war had broken out. Thankfully, common sense prevailed, the Soviets refrained from engaging in the unimaginable, and the potential unthinkable horror of nuclear war did not come to be. Make war no more. Climate change is the true threat to our collective existence. 😎

Well the wall came down and Marxism flooded into our schools and institutions, even the White House itself. Now look where we are? We should be ashamed of ourselves. We stopped the tanks but not the ideology, now the angry violent protester kid on everybody's street corner knows about seizing production, fed a steady diet of Far Left ideology from a teacher with a Che Guevara poster on the wall. Disgusting!

Defund NATO

It was my dream to be in a military school, but I couldn't pass the exam because i dont study enough. This will always remain a wound inside me.

I was a Ft Rucker teaching Advanced Combat Skills to IERW students in 88. I spent most of my 21 years in Korea or Bragg. I regret not going to Germany

An Idle Mind is the Devil's workshop! They should have put these guys to work building small houses with garden space and Apartment buildings. To see Russians fighting Ukrainians is like watching Americans fighting Texans.......

“We feel our skills out weigh their numbers!!” That’s what the Germans thought WWII 😂

Stationed in Schweinfurt as a Tanker 84-87 and 90-92 as well as NTC Ft Irwin 92-94. Thanks for this unbind and well-done documentary.

NATO looks like shizophren Person...

Well, according to info I got from my dad in the Czechoslovak people´s army and info I got during my national service in 2003-2004, NATO would be victorious. Yes, the Warsaw pact possesed many tanks (more then 10 000 in the eastern Germany itself and 3 600 tanks in Czechoslovakia), but those tanks were mostly absolute trash. Czechoslovak army even used some afterwar T-34´s . Czechoslovakia stored about 2 000 000 ammo pieces for them in 1980. Main problems for the socialistic side were: soldiers - lowly trained in most positions, not motivated, Leadership -there was absolute absence of leadership in the soviet and czechosl. army. Czechs learned how to lead after joining the NATO in 1999. Whole populations of the War. pact were just people who were enslaved by commies and didn´t want to fight for some old commie idiots in their furcoats just like Brezhnev, Husák, Gomulka etc. Thank You NATO and US republicans especially, that You did exist and had balls to show them. This attitude must come back because the old shit (Poo tin, Mr. Pooh) is back stronger then ever.

RuZZki Untermensch go home!

The biggest issue was the "exhaust ducts" which would have accumulated hydrogen under the pad and risk a huge explosion.

I never saw such protests in the east. not in Poland, Not in Karelia, not in belarus, not in Kola.