**Sorry for the 2 mins silence at 4:48 - Youtube hit me with a Copyright issue for the Soviet National Anthem. **
As part of my Cold War series, this video is an in depth documentary examining one of the largest NATO exercises that took place in West Germany during the final years of The Cold War.
In Autumn 1987, for the first time since World War 2, utilising the REFORGER concept, an entire Corp of the US Army was moved from North America to Northern Europe to reinforce NATO's Northern Army Group.
Exercise Certain Strike was then the Field Training Exercise of REFORGER '87 which saw West German and US Armoured Divisions battle across 1/8th of West Germany, against a multinational OPFOR simulating a Soviet Armoured Invasion force attacking across the inner German border.
Today, implementing such large scale exercises taking place across farmland and open countryside are unthinkable.
REFORGER '87/Exercise Certain Strike took place against a backdrop of one of the most turbulent of geopolitical times of the 20th Century, and today is an all but forgotten episode in modern history.
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