| Tango01 | 30 Oct 2014 9:38 p.m. PST |
"As Vladimir Putin's Russia continues to threaten Ukraine, having stolen Crimea in the spring and exerted de facto Kremlin control over much of the Donbas this summer, war worries are mounting on NATO's eastern frontier. New reports of Russian troop movements on the Ukrainian border this week are not reassuring to those Atlantic Alliance members who suffered Soviet occupation for decades, and still live in Moscow's neighborhood. Neither are Russian air force incursions into Western airspace calming nerves with their reborn Cold War antics: yesterday, NATO fighters intercepted no less than nineteen Russian combat aircraft, including several heavy bombers. No NATO countries are more worried about Kremlin aggression than the Baltic states, with their small militaries and lack of strategic depth, which are frankly indefensible in any conventional sense without significant and timely Alliance assistance. But Poland is the real issue when it comes to defending NATO's exposed Eastern frontier from Russian aggression. Only Poland, which occupies the Alliance's central front, has the military power to seriously blunt any Russian moves westward. As in 1920, when the Red Army failed to push past Warsaw, Poland is the wall that will defend Central Europe from any westward movement by Moscow's military. To their credit, and thanks to a long history of understanding the Russian mentality better than most NATO and EU members, Warsaw last fall, when the violent theft of Crimea was still just a Kremlin dream, announced a revised national security strategy emphasizing territorial defense. Eschewing American-led overseas expeditions like those to Iraq and Afghanistan that occupied Poland's Ministry of Defense (MoD) during the post-9/11 era, this new doctrine makes defending Poland from Eastern aggression the main job of its military. Presciently, then-Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, contradicting optimistic European and NATO presumptions of our era that conventional war in Europe was unthinkable, stated in May 2013, "I'm afraid conflict in Europe is imaginable."…"
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| goragrad | 30 Oct 2014 10:20 p.m. PST |
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Chortle  | 30 Oct 2014 11:11 p.m. PST |
I saw another article on this. Previously Polish armies were on the western border, for an attack on the west. It is natural that they should shift bases east – even if there isn't an imminent danger. |
| GeoffQRF | 31 Oct 2014 1:53 a.m. PST |
Force of Force, with Russian special forces raids on Polish early warning stations |
| Rick Dangerous | 31 Oct 2014 4:35 a.m. PST |
Previously Polish armies were on the western border, for an attack on the west. Why would the West attack Poland? |
| Gwydion | 31 Oct 2014 5:08 a.m. PST |
Where are the Russian incursions into 'western' airspace? There have been dangerous intercepts of Russian aircraft flying in international airspace and there have been US spy planes chased out of Russian airspace into Swedish airspace but when did the Russians overfly NATO countries? |
| Mick in Switzerland | 31 Oct 2014 5:24 a.m. PST |
"Why would the West attack Poland?" They would not do now but the bases were probably built in the 1950s during the Cold War when Poland was part of the Warsaw Pact. |
| Striker | 31 Oct 2014 5:33 a.m. PST |
I agree with Geoff, or micro and a Russian airdrop. |
| Generalstoner49 | 31 Oct 2014 6:29 a.m. PST |
I currently game using Pico armor this very scenario. I have a decent amount of polish and russian forces with some Germans, British, Dutch and Belgians to support. Another friend has American and more Russian. It plays out very much like a Cold War gone hot scenario. Interesting battles pitting PT-91's and Rosamark APC versus T-80/90's and BMP 2/3's. |
| Mako11 | 31 Oct 2014 10:17 a.m. PST |
Makes sense. Now, where did we put those mothballed Lance, and Pershing II missiles? |
 javelin98  | 31 Oct 2014 1:06 p.m. PST |
<shameless plug> Ah, you might want to invest in some PL-01's, Generalstoner! Just the thing for that near-future Poland-vs.-Russia scenario. shpws.me/wuxH
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| doug redshirt | 31 Oct 2014 3:44 p.m. PST |
Ohhhhhhh shiny shiny. Seen some videos on that vehicle and thought it would be perfect for near future. |
| Zargon | 01 Nov 2014 7:08 a.m. PST |
They should be so lucky- they'll have EU 'belt-tighting' from Brussels long before that happens. GeoffQRF that sounds interesting FoF mini battles sounds good 'little' green men vers 'little' brown men.
Modern warfare seems to be about the smaller clashes with unconvincing air support from what I can tell going on in the Muddling East. Would that change between these two?
In reality the Poles are following orders from up high they and Bear are more likely to disco than fight IMO.
Figures what scale? What other rules? Perhaps Nordic's? NEiS'5Core? Could it be done in 28mm? (That would look grand:)
Cheers happy gaming. |
