The Polish government, in an effort to "...draw a line under the country's Communist past, and "educate" the Polish public about the old regime" has released the documents from a 1979 Eastern Bloc war game, in which Poland is sacrificed to Allied nuclear weapons blocking Soviet reinforcements, and Soviet citybusters strike most Western European cities. Note that the Soviets did not expect NATO to launch against Eastern cities.

The new conservative government that released them said "It's important for citizens to know who was a hero, and who was a villain. It is important for the civic health of society to make these things public."

I'm less sanguine; I'm thinking it's possible we have files full of similar plans.

But it's both important to note what the Soviet military leadership expected from us - and planned to do about it - and to put into context the challenges and risks we face as compared to those we faced as recently as the 1980's.

Lots has improved since then. But we do have a ways to go...