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Radio War Nerd EP #25—Memories of St Patrick's Day As a Young War Nerd (Patreon)

Published:
2016-03-18 03:09:23
Imported:
2023-06

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The War Nerd's grim memories of St Patrick's Day in the Bay Area of his youth . . . Putin's surprise announcement withdrawing most Russian forces from Syria . . . Suicide bombing in Ankara . . . Erdogan's political calculations as he veers towards fascism . . . Reviewing Kim Barker's surprisingly good "Taliban Shuffle" . . . 

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Anonymous

Great show! This one didn't show up in my rss feed for some reason, though.

Anonymous

The "Bundeswehr" not a serious force? Is this a joke?

Anonymous

Dammit, what stupid system is this, where you post the comment when you press enter, instead of opening a new paragraph? What I wanted to say is that at the height of the Cold War, the Bundeswehr had a rapid mobilization strenght of 2 million men, about 6000 tanks, top notch technology (Leopard tanks for example) and apparently good training, since they regularly won and at times even dominated NATO friendly war game competitions (like the "Canadian Army Trophy Competition"). Also special forces from all over the world came and come to Germany to get trained by the Bavarian Mountaineer Troops. There is still a lot of old Wehrmacht know how in Bundeswehr training and doctrine and a lot of the things that were learned during WW2 were incorporated into the Bundeswehr training, by people who have been Wehrmacht soldiers and who were called upon when the new army was built. And the Russian Soviet Army wasn't that great, from what you hear from Eastern European Cold War era soldiers. Apparently during their international competitions and war games, the best Polish, East German and other East European soldiers had to wear Russian uniforms and had to pretend to be Russian soldiers so the Russians would win those competitions.

Anonymous

Damn, happened again. Well, part 3 of my comment: And from what you hear it sometimes wasn't much different in NATO war games, where "Blue Force" always had to win, much like during that infamous naval war game in the Persian Golf the War Nerd wrote about. I once talked to a British soldier who told me stories about NATO war games in the Netherlands where a American and British Blue Force should simulate a littoral landing operation and a Red Force made of Dutch and German units was supposed to temporarily delay the landing, but the whole operation had to be reset and started over 2 times because the Red Force totally wiped out the Blue Force 2 times and each time they imposed new restrictions on Red Force (like "this time no air defenses") till Blue Force finally won.

Jan Meyer
>>1603104

They have a tangential point though. One is that their is no telling how good the Bundeswehr would have done in an actual war (would we really have shot our own country to shit in order to satisfy some soviet-American grduge fest?) and so the political as well as morale reliability (will German troops shot each other?) was always in question. The second thing is that it most definitly is a serious force no more and even the War Nerds can fall into the trap of viewing history backwards.