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Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427
Interesting thread.
I was always taught that the defeat of russia in the cold war was the fact that the free world had far more spending power than the warsaw pact.
that,
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This is almost certainly true.
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and if it wasn't for the walker spy ring, they wouldn't have tried so hard to catch up to our technology, and they went bankrupt (hows that for karma huh?) Anyways, I am more based on tactics than logistics, and I am not all too knowledgeable on such things.
how about the flipside, a russian invasion of NATO? 
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Frankly, I don't really buy the whole Walker thing, and consider it part of a dumb Western thinking (racism is a nice term for all this) that the Russians can't think of not only new ideas, but the obvious on their own.
Sure, no doubt it had its place as one piece of information, but the idea that the Soviets took Walker just to tell them they had to quiet their subs as proposed by certain Western pundits as a certain Stuart Slade is utterly laughable. (Stuart Slade actually proposed, among other things, that the Soviets couldn't even conceive of passive track extraction existed without Walker telling them, in defiance of several page in the 1967 Soviet Watch Officer's Guide teaching the four bearings method.)
It is not like the basics of hydroacoustic propagation is a secret art, or the Soviets can't evaluate, at close range, how much noise their subs made and that it was more than American subs...