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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-04-2016, 03:39 PM
CapBritain
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Royal Marines get a lot of Mountain and Arctic training in Norway as a holdover from the Cold War, because they, or at least some, were tasked to go to Norway to reinforce NATO's northern flank in the event of a Third World War. I believe the thinking was that the Soviets would roll a division across the border into northern Norway, steam-roll down the main peninsular and seize airfields that would allow them to then base strategic and tactical bombers in much closer proximity to the UK, Iceland and the Atlantic supply routes. The Marines were then supposed to be deployed over there to basically F*** up the Soviets with the Norweigian military. RM Commandos also cross train with the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, with plans, so I read, for the RNMC to link up with RMC into a joint battle force in the event of WW3.
I think most of the British Army was planned to Channel-hop and join the main NATO armies in Germany, kicking ass and taking names hopefully. SAS would've gone behind the lines to wreak merry havoc. I remember reading in a now-outdated book about the SAS, that one particular mission they had for WW3 was to eliminate the Soviet Army's traffic controllers. They were the ones with all the geographic knowledge. "Without them the Red Army would have trouble
finding
Western Europe, let alone invading it," was the quote attached to an image of one traffic controller as it mentioned this. (Emphasis mine)
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