RSR questions: What likely happened that Clancy didn show?
Date: 2003-05-02 13:50:01 PST Mr. Wiser, that was in 1986, and the USSR no longer exists. But I will entertain your trivia request. 1. The Soviet Med Fleet deployed out of Northern Fleet, not the Black Sea Fleet. They probably bugged out for home, lest the world get a little too lonely. Even the French Fleet might have dealt successfully with them, assuming the French honored their NATO commitment in the event of war with the Warsaw Pact. A naval war in the Med with todays weapons would be exciting and brief, with the odds rather heavily on 6th Fleet. 2. When you go to Disney World, do you concentrate on the Main Street Plaza and the pretty horses, or head off to Space Mountain? The idea here is MISSION CONCEPT. If you are in a war, you concentrate on the things you must do, and temporarily forget about the things you might like to do in the abstract. We might bluster and demonstrate at the Russian Pacific Coast just to try to distract their forces from Europe, but not to invade oursel
