| Weasel | 17 May 2016 11:12 a.m. PST |
Any of you have a link to good, comprehensive lists of every American and Soviet military involvement during the cold war? Defined here as actual combat troops, advisors and everything inbetween. Ideally a list that is apolitical. I'm just looking for an easy reference, not someone's facebook nonsense.
Wikipedia has some starting places but I am not sure if there's something better that is evading my search.
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| raylev3 | 17 May 2016 11:32 a.m. PST |
Are you looking for plain military involvement during the time period of the Cold War, or involvement tied directly to the Cold war. You also may want to further define it as actions within a war zone; if you include places where one side or the other provided equipment and training the list will be even longer. You may also want to consider scale; for example, both sides maintain military attaches, but, depending on the circumstances, they may have been in country, but not involved in aspects of a local conflict. Obviously if actions are tied to the Cold War AND an actual conflict, the list is still long (below is just a start; I'm sure others can add more). Soviet:
Afghanistan
Angola
Hungary
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Egypt
Korean War United States:
Vietnam
Korea
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Grenada This doesn't even include countries that had a military presence but were not involved in a conflict such as NATO countries. |
| twawaddell | 17 May 2016 12:24 p.m. PST |
Run a search for all wars since 1945. Wikipedia will provide lists for various time periods listing all the combatants and their supporting nations. The list is long and depressing but chuck full of potential gaming opportunities! |
dragon6  | 17 May 2016 1:34 p.m. PST |
Soviet:
Ethiopia
Somalia
Eritrea
Yemen
Iraq – during Iran-Iraq, advisors and technicians which was what most of the aid was. Oh, pilots. Do Warsaw Pact allies count? If so Libya with advisors, technicians, pilots |
| Frankss | 17 May 2016 2:09 p.m. PST |
I see Angola. Can't recall if there were Soviets in Portugese Guinea (Guinea Bissau ) or just Cubans.
Also in Mozambique. |
| Frankss | 17 May 2016 2:11 p.m. PST |
I see Angola. Can't recall if there were Soviets in Portugese Guinea (Guinea Bissau ) or just Cubans.
Also in Mozambique. Soviets were in Egypt because of stink we hen kicked out.
? Syria. Just as an aside I read thst Cuban had tank troops in Syria after Yom Kippur from Nov to May. |
| Major Mike | 17 May 2016 4:27 p.m. PST |
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| Andoreth | 18 May 2016 4:01 a.m. PST |
There may not have been Russians in Portuguese Guinea Bissau but there were certainly Russian trainers in neighbouring Guinea and at the time of the Portuguese raid on Conakry in 1970 (Operation Green Sea) there were Osa class boats in the harbour presumably manned by Russians. On the US list didn't the Americans invade the Dominican Republic in the mid-1960s? |
| Andoreth | 18 May 2016 4:07 a.m. PST |
The Russians also had a large number of advisors in Vietnam during the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979 and assisted the Vietnamese with an airlift of troops from Cambodia to the front and gifts of materiel. |
| Old Wolfman | 18 May 2016 7:02 a.m. PST |
Including Spetsnaz units. |
| Rudysnelson | 18 May 2016 8:16 p.m. PST |
As I pointed out in others threads, in the 1970s there were reported actions between the Russians and Chinese as well as Chinese vs Vietnam. Did not action take place between India and Pakistan as well as China?
In my opinion you cannot forget Cuba's conflicts in Africa and elsewhere.
I have not seen Nicaragua listed yet. |
| zardoz1957 | 21 Jun 2016 9:51 p.m. PST |
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checks out some 10/15mm railroad tracks for wargaming.