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Old June 30th, 2014, 03:13 PM
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Default Re: Soviet invasion of Norway 1963

I do find it VERY interesting that the major Soviet ground forces in the area are still standard MRDs.
Yes, they're "winterized" and "light" (generally PT-76s vice T-Whatevers in the MRRs) but they're still primarily mechanized forces. One would think they'd have at least a couple purely infantry divisions. Because it seems to me they're just begging to re-experience the "Winter War" or "Market Garden". Yeah there are para and naval infantry that are generally infantry-centric but they have missions of their own to perform so wouldn't really be available to act as infantry for the main advance force.

I keep wondering what I'm missing, I've never thought of the Soviets as stupid, over-centralized and doctrine-bound yes, but not stupid.
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