re: Russia Unveils New Main Battle Tank, Among Other Things

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What im saying is this type of massive invasion on many fronts in many places would stretch the russians so thin that their go to tactics couldn't be used everywhere do to having enough troops.

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And speaking of not having enough troops, we don;t have enough troops in all of Europe even today to stop a full scale invasion of Poland. Here's what we have over there right now....

Armored Divisions: 0
Infantry Divisions: 0

Armored Brigades: 0
Infantry Brigades: 0
Airborne Brigades: 1 (Italy)
Aviation Brigades: 1 (Germany)

Cavalry Regiments: 1 (Germany) <- And it's a Stryker formation!


and that's it, that's all we've got in Europe today. One airborne (basically light infantry) brigade and one cavalry regiment. That's not even enough to hold much more than a city, much less help defend all of Poland. That's not even a full division worth of troops... Yes, we have less than ONE FREAKING DIVISION left in Europe today.

Now look at what we had in Germany when I was stationed there in the 80's...


Armored Div: 3
Infantry Div: 3
Cavalry Regiments: 2
Infantry Brigades: 1

And even then those were old expected to hold southern Germany. Central & North Germany were defended by the Germans, Dutch, and British.