BansheeOne Posted January 10, 2008 Posted January 10, 2008 You know, the mind boggles at what a German PSYOPS unit must be like... Well, first of all we don't call it PSYOPS (or "Psychological Defense", as the actual German designation used to be) any more, but "Operative Information". Its mission is to counter hostile disinformation and inform truthfully about the intentions of German forces. And we say all this with a straight face. Second, I did three weeks of voluntary reserve exercise at OpInfo back in 1997 and found they're made up of folks that are all like me.
FlyingCanOpener Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 I created a scenario based around that 9 years ago for 'The operational art of war 2' which proposes a Russian invasion of the Baltc states. Nato predictably doest stand much of a chance of getting enough boots on the ground in time to stop it, and all the lightweight brigades that get airlifted in get swiftly overrun. In the end it was only the Polish Brigades (and a quickly arriving British 7th Armoured Brigade) that were able to stop the massed Russian units at the Polish border. ...which brings me to the question of railways: Is all of Europe on the same gauge?
Xavier Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 ...which brings me to the question of railways: Is all of Europe on the same gauge?Western Europe is all standard gauge AFAIK, Eastern Europe should still have a lot of russian gauge
swerve Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 Western Europe is all standard gauge AFAIK, Eastern Europe should still have a lot of russian gauge Not Spain & Portugal. Both built a mixture of broad & narrow gauge - narrow-gauge minor lines to save money. The gauges weren't quite the same, but close enough for the same trains to run on both. Later unified the gauges. Rather wider than Russian gauge, & visibly (I speak from experience) wider than standard. I remember having to change trains at the Spanish border in the late 1980s, but there are now some standard-gauge high-speed lines, which are being linked (Soon? Already? In a few years?) to the TGV. Finland still uses Russian gauge, IIRC, as do all the ex-Soviet states, but I'm pretty sure all of Eastern Europe outside the former USSR uses standard gauge, except for the line from Warsaw to the old Soviet border.
Hans Engstrom Posted January 12, 2008 Posted January 12, 2008 http://parovoz.com/spravka/gauges-en.php More than you ever wanted to know.
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