Continuing
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2025/12/today-is-12092025-post-2.html
From 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) To 12/20/2025 ( ) is 14380 days
14380 = 7190 + 7190
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/10/1985 ( premiere USA film "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" ) is 7190 days
Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpt, Chapter 3 - Correlation of Forces
MOSCOW, R.S.F.S.R.
"How are we to go about it?" Rozhkov asked.
"Red Storm," the Marshal replied simply. Red Storm was the plan for a mechanized attack into West Germany and the Low Countries. Constantly updated for changes in the force structures of both sides, it called for a two-to three-week campaign commencing after a rapid escalation of tension between East and West. Despite this, in accordance with standard Soviet strategic doctrine, it called for strategic surprise as a precondition for success, and the use of conventional weapons only.
"At least they aren't talking about atomic arms." Rozhkov grunted. Other plans with other names applied to different scenarios, including many for the use of tactical and even strategic nuclear arms, something no one in uniform wished to contemplate. Despite all the saber-rattling of their political masters, these professional soldiers knew all too well that the use of nuclear arms made only for ghastly uncertainties.
Red Storm Rising (1986) - Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
excerpt, Chapter 3 - Correlation of Forces
"And the maskirovka?"
"In two parts. The first is purely political, to work against the United States. The second part, immediately before the war begins, is from KGB. You know it, from KGB Group Nord. We reviewed it two years ago."
Rozhkov grunted. Group Nord was an ad hoc committee of KGB department chiefs, first assembled by then-chief of the KGB Yuri Andropov in the mid-1970s. Its purpose was to research means of splitting the NATO alliance, and in general to conduct political and psychological operations aimed at undermining Western will. Its specific plan to shake the NATO military and political structure in preparation for a shooting war was Nord's proudest example of legerdemain. But would it work?
From 8/7/1986 ( "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy ) To 2/24/2022 ( ) is 12985 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/22/2001 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Seven Days"::"Born in the USSR" ) is 12985 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:56 PM Pacific-timezone USA Tuesday 12/09/2025
