Clancy's vision of a war in central Europe was not unrealistic. The Soviets had several war plans, also pure-conventional ones.
Clancy's suspicion that the Warsaw Pact states, which shared a border with West Germany, would be reluctant to agree to use weapons of mass destructions, was right, I guess.
There are strong indications for instance that Czechoslovakia might not have particpated in a conflict between NATO and WP. The unity between the WP states was only strong on paper.
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