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Soviet war plan similar to Clancy's Red Storm Rising

Telegraph:

Soviet plans for a Warsaw Pact invasion of western Europe utilising nuclear weapons, which were revealed by the new Polish government in Warsaw, bear an uncanny resemblance to those outlined in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.

Clancy, however, supposed that the war between Nato and the Warsaw Pact would not go nuclear but would be fought with conventional weapons.

Radek Sikorsky, the Polish defence minister, displayed a map of USSR strikes which shows a barrage of Soviet multi-megaton nuclear strikes on key river lines, including the Rhine and the Meuse, and a Nato counter strike with smaller more accurate nuclear warheads on the Vistula as it runs through Poland.

The Nato strikes are supposed to have been mounted to interdict the movement of Soviet reinforcements from Russia to the battle front.

The whole scheme, codenamed Seven Days to the River Rhine, is predicated on the idea that Nato would be the aggressor and that the Warsaw Pact, under Soviet control, would respond only in self-defence.

The documents are represented as a war game, not an executive military plan. Traditionally, however, war games are the exercises used by general staff to test military projects before formal plans are adopted. The Prussian general staff's Schlieffen Plan, for the invasion of France and Belgium in 1914, first saw the light in war game documents and maps.

The date of the Seven Days to the River Rhine (1979) document coincides with the beginning of Poland's escape from Soviet and Communist control.

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