The scenario, set in the late 1980s, assumed that the forces of the Soviet Union and the rest of the Warsaw Pact—namely East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary—steamrollered West ...

After the Warsaw Pact had launched nuclear strikes, conventional forces would be sent in to conquer. ... First, in a surprise attack, the most important forces are the ground forces.

This video explores a Cold War what-if scenario: a full-scale NATO vs. Warsaw Pact air war in 1989. Dive into the aircraft, strategies, and potential outcomes of a high-stakes clash between ...

25 November 2005 -- Poland today followed through on a promise to open secret files of the Warsaw Pact. ... was a detailed plan for pushing Warsaw Pact forces to the Atlantic in a war with NATO.

Signed in 1990, just a year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the treaty prevented both NATO and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact from building up a large number of forces and launching a quick ...

Now the Albanian air force flies just helicopters. ... Albania has been a member of NATO since 2009, having left the Warsaw Pact in 1968 after years of disagreement with Russia.

Russia on Tuesday formally withdrew from a landmark security treaty which limited key categories of conventional armed forces, blaming the United States for undermining post-Cold War security.