Michael Peck
Security, Eurasia
The Kremlin invokes its glory days of European conquest.
More than seventy years after it helped to destroy Nazi Germany, Russia’s most famous tank unit is back.
Moscow has reactivated the First Guards Tank Army, one of six tank armies formed by the Soviet Union during World War II as the mobile, hard-hitting spearhead of the Red Army’s offensive into Germany. During the Cold War, the First Guards Tank Army was stationed in East Germany as part of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany (GSFG), where it would have been the vanguard of a Warsaw Pact drive into …read more
Source: The National Interest
