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history of the Middle East is as old as time itself. This small area has
seen conflict throughout recorded time. In the mid 1990's, this conflict
took on a new intensity, one brought on by the modern instruments of war.
While this games title is Middle East '67 it contains a number of
scenarios from the war in '56 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. In the mid
1900's, the Middle East conflict took the world from post WWII Weapons up
to more modern instruments of war. The tank and guided missile now ranged
over the deserts of the Sinai, the heights of the Golan, and the depths of
the Dead Sea. As the opposing forces fight for their land and their
people, how will these conflicts be resolved? For more information
available at the HPS website, click
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NATO
and the Warsaw Pact forces had been staring at each other across the Iron
Curtain for 40 Years as the Cold War became more and more heated. During
the mid '80's, the Cold War reached a boiling point as the ideologies of
communism and capitalism were in their most confrontational posture. Fulda
Gap '85 - One Spark on the world scene would be all that it would take to
ignite these powerful military forces and send then crashing into each
other across the only think that stood between them in Germany, the FULDA
GAP! We are not certain when the term "Fulda Gap" began to be used in
military circles to speak of the prominent terrain corridor that runs from
what used to be East Germany toward Frankfurt. We do know that by 1980 the
term was in broad use all the way up to NATO. For more information
available at the HPS website, click
Ever
since the cease-fire of the Korean War of the 1950's, an uneasy peace had
existed on the Korean peninsula. As the Cold War grew in intensity through
the 60's and 70's, the positions of the two sides became increasingly
strained. By the mid 80's both sides were armed and ready to do battle
once more. It would only take one incident in the world to trigger a new
Korean War, one that would be fought with weapons and attack helicopters.
With events in Europe carrying the course of history in unexpected
directions, the time for the new Korean War has arrived. For more
information available at the HPS website, click
While
the Americans held the Fulda Gap in West Germany, British and West German
forces defended the North German Plain, stretching from the Hartz
Mountains to the Baltic Sea. The North German Plain was prime tank
country, the kind the Russians and their Warsaw Pact forces wanted to
attack through. They had massed their strongest forces there, particularly
the Third Shock Army ready to attack in this key area astride Berlin. In
this hypothetical clash, the Warsaw Pact unleash their power in the
opening of World War III in the summer of 1985. Together the conflict here
on this North German plain and at the Fulda Gap in the south, would decide
the fate of Europe and the world. For more information available at the HPS website, click
After
the perceived failure of détente in the 1970's, the 1980's saw an
escalation in the intensity of the cold war. The war in Afghanistan,
arming of Nicaragua, invasion of Grenada, US deployment of cruise-missiles
to Europe, Soviet shoot-down of the Korean airliner, killing of a US
Observer in East Germany and many other belligerent activities by the
superpowers were all very real increases in tension. Regardless of
intentions, the effect was disdain, distrust & more paranoia on both
sides. As the west, led by the USA, began to pour money into force
modernization programs, the USSR & Warsaw Pact began to feel the unease of
a shift in the 'correlation of forces' - the balance of power. Training
for war took on a more serious tone; exercises became even more realistic
and thus more intimidating to the other side. A collision of the
superpowers became almost inevitable. Thus the stage was set for a clash
of titans, a struggle that would be fought on the fields, forests, hills &
in the towns of Germany in 1985.... For more information available at the
HPS website, 