Nation: I Can Move Damned Fast

Maybe even fast enough for NATO to stop a Soviet blitz

The alert sounds. Three minutes later, half a dozen M60 tanks of the U.S. 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment roll out of observation post "Alpha" near Fulda, West Germany, to assigned positions just a few yards from the East German border. Another alert blares at Ramstein Air Base, south of Frankfurt. There U.S. airmen in flight suits jump out of bed and slide down a pole to a hangar as ground crews dash to prepare F-4E Phantoms. In less than three minutes, the fighters...

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