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@Tiamat : Quick note on Korean names, it's "surname first, given name last." Normally the two presidents in question are referred to as Chun and Roh, respectively. As for the democracy movement, I'm not surprised; the dictatorship effectively ended in 1987 so while it's in the "transition"...

Honestly, if World War III had broken out in Scandinavia, there was a non-zero chance Sweden would have fought alongside NATO. But yeah…would have made for quite a soundtrack. Oh, and for any action in the Middle East/Levant, don’t forget The Clash’s Rock the Casbah. It was in fact the most...

I'd also prefer to see you continue the story. I'm interested to see what happens.

Fair enough. As far as the original article goes it was in a Aviation Week but the link was dead so I had to go with one that quoted it. And yes, I am aware of the grain shipments we sent (ironic, I suppose, but then again our issue was always with the Soviet government). And yes, I agree the...

Read it again, I was saying the “roundout brigade” concept turned out to be a failure. That is, 1st Cavalry, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, & 24th Infantry all deployed short-handed to the Gulf because their third brigades were NG formations (well, 6th was a Reserve formation) and not up to U.S. Army...

Well, not really. The thing about the Iraqis is that they were so incompetent they didn’t understand things like how to use their tanks’ fancy gear, didn’t understand basic tactics, etc. Also, the Red Army did have a very good chance of actually overrunning NATO positions in Germany -sure they...