Michael Peck
Security, Europe
It’s 1989, and the USSR just invaded Western Germany. The best Cold War weapons are about to square off.
God favors the side with the bigger battalions, says the old military proverb. The Soviet Union didn’t believe in God, but heaven knows, it did swear by the bigger battalions. So what if some of those numerous battalions had obsolete equipment, or soldiers and officers who didn’t speak the same language? As proclaimed by Stalin, himself a former Communist deity, “quantity has a quality all its own.”
While the Soviets worshiped quantity, NATO had a different theology. Their god was …read more
Source: The National Interest
