NATO Nightmare: A Russian Invasion of Iceland?
Robert Beckhusen
Security, Europe
You've got to be kidding (but we're not).
Key Point: If war broke out, seizing Iceland would have been one of the Soviet's first initiatives.
Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel Red Storm Rising depicts a conventional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. It’s one of Clancy’s best books and, interesting for a story about a Third World War, doesn’t involve a nuclear apocalypse.
It does describe a ground war in Germany, naval and air battles in the North Atlantic and ... Читать дальше...