Dropshot plan. War plan against the Soviet Union during the Cold War

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WHEN THEY DESTROYED OUR ARMY, WE WERE TOLD THAT NO ONE WAS GOING TO ATTACK US. IT'S WE WHO THREATENED THE WHOLE WORLD.
LET'S SEE IF THIS IS SO.

“No, and there can be no other alternative other than war with the Soviet Union, unless the Soviet Union agrees to surrender...”
1981 Richard Pipes, adviser to President Reagan, professor at Harvard University, member of the Zionist, anti-communist organization "The Present Danger Committee"

“The coming destruction of the Soviet Union must be the decisive, final battle - the Armageddon described in the Bible.”
Reagan. October 1983 Interview with the Jerusalem Post newspaper.

“The Soviet Union will be finished within a few years.”
1984 R.Pipes:

1984 Evgeny Rostov, one of the main founders of the “Committee of Existing Danger,” emphasized:
“We are not in the post-war period, but in the pre-war period.”

“I signed the legislative prohibition of the Soviet Union.
The bomb attack will begin in five minutes.”
1984 Reagan.

PLANS FOR THE ATTACK OF THE NATON SO VET SKIY S O SOUTH WEST

1. JUNE 1946 plan called “PINSCHER” - “PICKS”.
Drop 50 nuclear bombs on 20 cities of the USSR.

5. End of 1949 plan “DROPSHOTS” - INSTANT IMPACT.”
Drop 300 atomic bombs on 200 cities of the USSR within a month, if the USSR does not surrender, continue bombing with conventional charges in the amount of 250 thousand tons, which should lead to the destruction of 85% of Soviet industry.

Simultaneously with the bombing, in the second stage, ground forces in the amount of 164 NATO divisions, of which 69 are US divisions, occupy the starting positions for the offensive.

In the third stage, 114 NATO divisions from the west go on the offensive.
From the south, in the area between Nikolaev and Odessa (where NATO “peacekeepers” are constantly practicing the invasion in the “SI-BREEZ” exercises), 50 naval and airborne divisions are landing on the Black Sea coast, whose task is to destroy the Soviet armed forces in Central Europe.

By the time of the invasion, it was planned to accumulate the maximum number of NATO ships in the Black Sea in order to prevent the Black Sea Fleet from blocking the Bosporus Strait, and, consequently, the entry of NATO ships into the Black Sea to the shores of the USSR.

To ensure maximum effectiveness of combat operations and minimal losses, the task was set to constantly conduct reconnaissance of coastal defenses and terrain folds of the Black Sea coast before the invasion, using any opportunities, including excursions, friendly, sports meetings, etc.

IN THE PROCESS OF THE WAR AGAINST THE USSR, it was planned to involve:
250 ground divisions - 6 million 250 thousand people.
In addition, aviation, navy, air defense, support units - plus 8 million people.

NATO's plans for the Black Sea region, described in "US Prepares to Attack Russia," coincide with the Drop Shot plan. Ogorodnikov.

After the occupation, the USSR is DIVIDED INTO OCCUPIATION ZONES:

1. Western part of Russia.
2. Caucasus - Ukraine.
3. Ural - Western Siberia - Turkestan.
4. Eastern Siberia - Transbaikalia - Primorye.

OCCUPATION ZONES are divided into 22 SUB-AREAS of responsibility

It is determined that AFTER THE OCCUPATION, NATO OCCUPATION FORCES are stationed on the TERRITORY of the USSR to carry out OCCUPATION FUNCTIONS in the amount of 38 ground divisions of 1 million people, of which 23 divisions perform their functions in the Central part of the USSR.

DISTRIBUTION OF OCCUPATION FORCES centered in cities:
Two divisions in Moscow. One division each in: Leningrad, Minsk, Kiev, Odessa, Murmansk, Gorky, Kuibyshev, Kharkov, Sevastopol, Rostov, Novorossiysk, Batumi, Baku, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tashkent, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok.
The occupation forces include 5 air armies, 4 of which are dispersed on Russian territory.
They are introduced into the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea via an aircraft carrier formation.

To the above, the expression of the ideologist of the colonization of the USSR B. Brzezinski is appropriate: “... RUSSIA WILL BE Fragmented AND UNDER GUARDIANESS.”

1991
1991 NATO is preparing for military actions on the territory of Russia and other Eastern European states.
One NATO document states:
“We must be prepared for military intervention in this region.”
“There may be a need to intervene in the affairs of the Arab world-the world of Islam.” The question of intervention in the Mediterranean is being considered: “In Algeria, Egypt, the Middle East - in regions where we must be prepared for military actions.”
“NATO must be prepared to intervene anywhere in the world.”
Pretext:
“Terrorist activity of a particular state, accumulation and storage of chemical weapons, etc.”
The need for preparing public opinion, its processing by the media, and conducting propaganda preparations for intervention is emphasized

REASONS WHY NATO COUNTRIES DIDN'T ATTACK THE USSR:
NATO was opposed by a powerful military bloc of the Warsaw Pact countries,
with its mighty army, vast territory, reserves of manpower, which in turn:

1. It did not allow a lightning war to be carried out, even in the event of a treacherous attack.
2. In 20 days, the USSR was able to occupy all of Western Europe.
3. In 60 days, England would have been destroyed along with its bases, which were of paramount importance for the attack.
4.The United States would not be able to protect its territory from retaliation.
5. The unity of our people in all respects was frightening.
6. Our enemies remembered the courage and heroism of our people in all wars to defend our Fatherland and in fulfilling their international duty.
7. The enemy understood that partisan warfare would be organized in the occupied territory, and only a few would be lackeys and traitors.
CONCLUSION: IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO DEFEAT OUR PEOPLE! And now???

The NATO countries, knowing that they would receive a retaliatory blow, still did not abandon the idea of ​​attacking the USSR, constantly improving their plans.
The so-called “brothers” imposed on us have already achieved a lot from their plans. “new strategic partners”, all that remains is to buy up everything (including land) for their own papers or to fool them for consumer goods, put their soldier on our necks, leave the required number of slaves, reducing the population according to the principle: a slave must make a profit or die (Who needs a slave who will eat and not work?) Will something change in the actions of the occupier, in his attitude towards us, towards our children, grandchildren, if we let him go voluntarily, “entering” NATO?

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"Dropshot" - a plan for an attack on the USSR. Cold War After Nazi Germany was defeated, the United States was so frightened by the strength of the Soviet Army that it was forced to develop a special strategy - "Dropshot". The plan to attack the USSR and allies was to stop their subsequent invasion of Western Europe, the Middle East and Japan. Reasons for creation The basic strategy has been developed by the Pentagon since the beginning of 1945. It was at that time that the so-called threat of the subsequent “communization” of all of Eastern Europe appeared, as well as the extravagant version of Stalin’s intention to invade the territory of Western states under the pretext of clearing them of the remaining German occupiers.

Several previous American projects served as prerequisites. The code name of the plan to attack the USSR changed several times, and its main directives changed just as many times. The Pentagon developed the likely actions of the communists and designed its methods of counteraction. New strategies replaced each other, replacing one another. Operation Dropshot: background It is now known for certain that there were several specific plans that ordinary Americans were not even aware of. These are operations: “Totality” - was developed by D. Eisenhower during the Second World War; “Charoitir” - an updated version, came into force in the summer of 1948; Fleetwood - was ready for the third anniversary of the end of World War II; “Troyan” - the plan was developed in anticipation of the start of the bombing of the Union on January 1, 1957; "Dropshot" assumed that surprise bombing should begin on 01/01/1957. As can be seen from declassified documentation, the States really planned to start a third world war, which would turn into a nuclear war. Americans have atomic weapons For the first time, the US “Dropshot” plan was announced in the White House after the Potsdam Conference, which was attended by the leaders of the victorious states: the USA, Great Britain and the USSR. Truman arrived at the meeting in high spirits: the day before, test launches of atomic warheads had been carried out. He became the head of a nuclear state. Let us analyze the historical reports of a specific period of time in order to then draw the appropriate conclusions. The meeting was held from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The test launch was carried out on July 16, 1945 - the day before the meeting. On August 6 and 9, 1945, two such shells completely burned Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The conclusion suggests itself: the Pentagon tried to bring the first nuclear test to the beginning of the conference, and the atomic bombing of Japan to the end. Thus, the United States tried to establish itself as the only state in the world that owns atomic weapons

The plan in detail The first mentions available to the world community appeared in 1978. American specialist A. Brown, working on the secrets of World War II, published a number of documents confirming that the United States was indeed developing the Dropshot strategy - a plan to attack the USSR. The action plan of the American “liberation” army should have looked like this. As mentioned above, hostilities were supposed to begin on January 1, 1957.

In a short time, it was planned to drop 300 nuclear weapons and 250,000 tons of conventional bombs and shells onto the territory of the Soviet Union. As a result of the bombing, it was planned to destroy at least 85% of the country's industry, up to 96% of the industry of countries friendly to the Union and 6.7 million of the state's population. The next step is the landing of NATO ground forces. It was planned to involve 250 divisions in the attack, of which the Allied troops numbered 38 units. The occupation actions were to be supported by aviation, in the amount of 5 armies (7400 aircraft). At the same time, all sea and ocean communications must be captured by the NATO Navy. The third step of Operation Dropshot is a plan to destroy the USSR and erase it from the political map of the world. This meant the use of all known types of weapons: atomic, small arms, chemical, radiological and biological. The final stage is the division of the occupied territory into 4 zones and the deployment of NATO troops in the largest cities. As the documents stated: “Pay special attention to the physical destruction of communists.”

Shattered Dreams The Americans were unable to implement their “Dropshot” strategy; the plan to attack the USSR was not carried out thanks to one event. On September 3, 1949, the pilot of an American bomber flying over the Pacific Ocean used instruments to detect a sharp increase in radioactivity in the upper layer of the atmosphere. Having processed the data, the Pentagon was extremely disappointed: Stalin was testing atomic bombs. There was no reaction from Truman to the message, he was so discouraged. Only after some time did information about this appear in the press. The government was afraid of an inadequate reaction in the form of panic among the ordinary population. Pentagon scientists found a way out of the situation by offering the president the development of a new, more destructive bomb - a hydrogen bomb. It must be in service with the States to pacify the Soviets. Despite the difficult financial and economic situation, the Soviet Union was only 4 years behind the Americans in creating the atomic bomb!

Arms Race Considering the further development of events, “Dropshot” - a plan to attack the USSR, was doomed to failure. The following scientific and high-tech developments of the Country of Soviets were to blame: 08/20/1953 - the Soviet press officially announced that a hydrogen bomb had been tested. On October 4, 1957, the first satellite belonging to the Soviet Union was launched into Earth orbit. This became a guarantee that intercontinental-range missiles had been created, as a result of which America ceased to be “out of reach.” It is worth thanking the scientists who, in post-war conditions, developed the Soviet response to American “encroachments.” It was their heroic work that allowed subsequent generations not to learn from their own experience what “Dropshot” was - a plan to destroy the USSR, “Troyan” or “Fleetwood” - similar operations. Their developments made it possible to achieve nuclear parity and bring world leaders to the next negotiating table related to reducing the number of nuclear weapons.

January 1, 1957. It was on this day, according to the once secret American Dropshot plan, that the third world war could begin between the USSR and the USA with the massive use of nuclear, chemical and bacteriological weapons.

From allies to antagonists: two blocs on the brink of war

The US Joint Chiefs of Staff approved the Dropshot plan on December 19, 1949, just four years after the victory of the USSR and its allies over the Third Reich. At the end of World War II, the two largest powers, the USA and the USSR, gradually plunged into another war - the Cold War.

The point of no return on the path to transforming yesterday's allies into irreconcilable enemies was the famous speech of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, delivered at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The former head of the British government said that English-speaking countries should have complete military superiority over the USSR.

Just nine days after Churchill’s speech, on March 15, Joseph Stalin, in an interview with Pravda, compared the former prime minister with Adolf Hitler. Thus, the mutual distrust of two ideologically and politically polar blocs grew into open confrontation, which left its mark on the world history of the second half of the 20th century.

Winston Churchill delivers the famous Fulton speech AP Photo

CHASING THE APOCALYPSE: NUCLEAR RACE

The most important characteristic feature of the Cold War was the nuclear arms race. Scientists from Nazi Germany, the United States of America, Great Britain, and the USSR worked on the development of the most powerful bomb. Thanks to the Manhattan Project, launched in the United States in 1943, under the leadership of physicist Robert Oppenheimer, just two years later the first test of a nuclear explosive device was carried out in the US state of New Mexico.

Just a month after the test, in August 1945, two American Boeing B-29 bombers dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The destructive power of "Baby" and "Fat Man" and the destruction of about a quarter of a million people in two combat missions on August 6 and 9 forced Japan to sign a humiliating instrument of surrender aboard the American battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

For a short period, from 1945 to 1949, the United States became the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. And in many ways, it was the fact of this superiority that became the starting point in the development of a series of global plans providing for the delivery of multiple strikes, both conventional and non-conventional, against the main geopolitical enemy of the West - the USSR.

Predecessors of "Dropshot"

Among the most famous and declassified plans for waging a total war against the USSR today, in addition to Dropshot, Operation Unthinkable and the Totality plan are known. Both plans were created in 1945, with Operation Unthinkable being developed on the orders of the author of the Fulton Speech, Winston Churchill. "Totality" appeared as a result of the work of the headquarters of American General Dwight Eisenhower.

American General Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill in France, September 1944

The objective of the offensive plan was to oust Soviet troops from the territory of Poland, which was occupied during the liberation of Eastern Europe from German occupation. The objective of the defensive plan was to protect British territory in the event of a breakthrough by Soviet troops in Western Europe.

The British did not provide both plans to the American command for review. Although Operation Unthinkable assumed that, apart from the United States and the United Kingdom, "one cannot rely on any assistance from the armies of other Western powers."

The plan did not gain approval from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which calculated that quick success in such a war was impossible due to the USSR's superiority in manpower and military equipment by 2.6 times, and in aviation by 1.5 times.

Totality Plan was developed by the United States in August 1945, when the first atomic bombs began to enter US service. Their number and production capabilities were severely limited, as were their delivery vehicles (exclusively bombers). It was conceived by President Harry Truman to mislead the USSR about the real nuclear capabilities of the United States in the post-war years.

Totality was the first military plan in history to bombard several large cities of a supposed enemy with nuclear bombs at once. The list included Moscow, Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), Kuibyshev (Samara), Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg), Novosibirsk, Omsk, Saratov, Kazan, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Baku, Tashkent, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Magnitogorsk, Molotov (Perm) ), Tbilisi, Stalinsk (Novokuznetsk), Grozny, Irkutsk and Yaroslavl - 20 cities in total.

Of course, the US did not have 20 atomic bombs in August 1945. The only two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But by 1950, American nuclear stockpiles were close to 300.

But the USSR had only five atomic bombs that same year. Such superiority may have given the American military command the idea of ​​​​developing an even more ambitious plan than Totality.

"Dropshot": basic assumptions

A selection of American newspapers with headlines about the announcement by US President Harry Truman of the first Soviet test of the RDS-1 atomic bomb, detonated at the Semipalatinsk test site on August 29, 1949

The Dropshot Plan was developed in 1949, when Harry Truman was re-elected to a second term as President. And it was declassified only in 1978, under Jimmy Carter. The plan for a total war with the USSR, unlike Totality, did not put nuclear bombing in the first place, but the number of nuclear bombs that were planned to be dropped on Soviet settlements and military facilities could destroy most of the population and 85% of the country's industrial potential .

The basic assumptions of the plan are a set of conditions and time frames for waging war between the United States and its allies against the USSR.

The first basic assumption is the start date of the war - January 1, 1957. The reason is an alleged act of aggression, an attack by the USSR and/or its allies.

The US allies in the conflict are NATO members (at that time Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Portugal), as well as parts of China (where communist rule was not established), the Philippines and all British Commonwealth countries except India and Pakistan.

Side by side with the Soviet Union are Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea and communist China. “Dropshot” also suggested that Yugoslavia could have sided with the USSR, but would have stayed closer to neutrality.

Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Israel, Iran, India and Pakistan declare neutrality, but join the United States in the event of a serious threat from the USSR.

There were also additional assumptions regarding both the pace of development and armament of the Soviet troops, as well as the pace of mobilization of NATO and USSR troops, as well as the economic situation in the United States and the availability of Middle Eastern energy resources for the needs of the allies. The most important and dangerous additional assumption of the general war plan was point number 14.

Nuclear weapons will be used by both sides. Other weapons of mass destruction (radiological, biological and chemical weapons) may be used by either side, subject to considerations of retaliation and effectiveness

Dropshot plan. Chapter 1, section 4, paragraph 14

FOUR PHASES OF THE APOCALYPSE

The actions of the United States and allies since January 1, 1957 were, according to the plan, divided into four parts. It was understood that, depending on the location of the conflict and the pace of development of certain events, the four phases could overlap each other.

First phase envisaged a single day, or D-Day, of the start of the nuclear bombing of the USSR by the Allies in order to “stabilize the early Soviet offensive.”

Second phase envisaged the launch of major offensive operations along the entire front line by all branches of the military.

Third phase— conducting offensive operations until the moment of the USSR’s surrender.

Fourth phase— establishing control and ensuring compliance with the terms of surrender.

Why didn't there come a nuclear New Year in 1957?

There are many reasons why the Dropshot plan was not carried out. In just eight years from the plan's development to the proposed nuclear New Year, both the world and military affairs had changed radically.

First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden and US President Dwight Eisenhower among the guests at the evening organized by the Swiss President after the Geneva Conference on July 22, 1955 Keystone/Getty Images

In 1953 Joseph Stalin passes away, and Dwight Eisenhower, under whose leadership Totality was developed, becomes President of the United States.

In 1955 Eisenhower meets with Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Bulganin and First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev, as well as with the leaders of Great Britain and France at the summit in Geneva. The summit became an important milestone in the desire of the USSR and Western countries for peace and strengthening international security.

In 1956 Khrushchev speaks at the XX Congress of the CPSU with the famous report “On the cult of personality and its consequences.” The process of de-Stalinization of the USSR begins.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg leave a New York court after being convicted in March 1953 AP Photo

Over the same eight years, four equally important events took place in the nuclear field.

In 1951 In the United States, the Rosenberg spouses, who transferred valuable data and drawings related to the American nuclear program, were convicted of espionage and sentenced to death. The event played a role in strengthening Soviet nuclear capabilities.

In 1954 USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, is launched.

In 1956 For the first time, a Soviet bomber flies at a range corresponding to the distance to the United States and back with refueling, thereby hypothetically guaranteeing the survival of the Soviet pilot.

In 1957 The USSR successfully tests the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The Soviet R-7 missile was capable of delivering one 3-megaton nuclear warhead over a distance of 8,800 km. Moreover, the distance from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Los Angeles is 6600 km, from Moscow to Washington - 7850 km.

Thus, in just two years, the USSR demonstrated its ability to launch nuclear strikes on US territory in the event of a global conflict. And the scenario of gratuitous nuclear bombing of the USSR is a thing of the past.

On March 5, 1946, Churchill gave a speech in the American town of Fulton, which is considered to be a public proclamation of the Cold War.

And three years later, the Pentagon adopted the Dropshot plan - to drop 300 atomic bombs on 100 Soviet cities, and then occupy our country with 164 NATO divisions, including 69 American ones.

The plan, to the popularization of which a special issue of Colliers magazine was dedicated, provided for the creation of the headquarters of the occupation forces in Moscow, the renaming of Leningrad to St. Petersburg, and the dismemberment of the country with the participation of “Great Russian monarchists,” “Ukrainian separatists,” Baltic and other nationalists.

On January 1, 1957, the most terrible operation in the history of mankind, "Dropshot", was supposed to begin... Why was it so terrible? A word on the facts: It was assumed that all NATO countries would act jointly with the United States. Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Israel, Iran, India and Pakistan "will try to remain neutral but will join allies if attacked or seriously threatened." The "overall strategic concept" of the plan was as follows:

"In conjunction with our allies, impose military objectives on the Soviet Union, destroying the Soviet will and ability to resist through a strategic offensive in Western Eurasia and strategic defense in the Far East. Initially: protect the Western Hemisphere; conduct an air offensive; begin selective containment of Soviet power approximately within zones: North Pole - Greenland Sea - Norwegian Sea - North Sea - Rhine - Alps - about: Piava - Adriatic Sea - Crete - southern Turkey - Tigris Valley - Persian Gulf - Himalayas - Southeast Asia - South China Sea - East China Sea - Bering Sea - Bering Strait - North Pole; hold and secure the most important strategic areas, bases and communication lines; conduct psychological, economic and underground warfare, while simultaneously subjecting the Soviet stronghold to merciless pressure, using all methods to maximally deplete Soviet military resources.

In the subsequent period: conduct coordinated offensive operations by all types of armed forces." In the first period of the war, it was planned to drop over 300 atomic and 250 thousand tons of conventional bombs on the Soviet Union, destroying up to 85 percent of Soviet industry. There were detailed plans for the suppression of Soviet air defense against Soviet ground, sea and air forces. In the second period, the air offensive continues and NATO ground forces are put into action - 164 divisions, of which 69 are American. Control is established over sea and ocean communications, etc. In the third stage, 114 go on the offensive from the west NATO divisions, from the south (with landing on the northwestern coast of the Black Sea) 50 divisions that destroy the Soviet Armed Forces in Central Europe. These actions and the continued massive bombing of Soviet cities force the USSR and its allies to surrender. In the war against the USSR, everyone will be involved up to 250 divisions - 6 million 250 thousand people.

There are another 8 million people in aviation, navy, air defense, reinforcement units, etc. In total, it was planned to use a force of 20 million people to implement the Dropshot plan. In the last, fourth period, the “Dropshot” plan was literally lovingly written out - “in order to ensure the fulfillment of our national goals, the allies must occupy” the Soviet Union and other socialist countries of Europe. The total requirements of the occupation forces were determined to be 38 divisions, that is, approximately 1 million people in ground forces. Of these, 23 divisions carry out occupation functions on the territory of the Soviet Union. The territory of our country is divided into four “areas of responsibility”, or occupation zones: the Western part of the USSR, the Caucasus - Ukraine, the Urals - Western Siberia - Turkestan, Eastern Siberia - Transbaikalia - Primorye.

The zones were divided into 22 “subareas of responsibility.” The occupation forces were distributed in the following cities: in Moscow - two divisions and one division each in Leningrad, Minsk, Murmansk, Gorky, Kuibyshev, Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Sevastopol, Rostov, Novorossiysk, Batumi, Baku, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tashkent, Omsk , Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok. Of the five air armies intended to occupy all socialist countries, four were stationed on the territory of the USSR. Each army was to include five to six combat groups, one group of transport aircraft and one attack group. An operational aircraft carrier formation was introduced into the Baltic and Black Seas. It was especially emphasized that the strong saturation of the occupation forces with aviation “should provide visible proof of the power of the Allies” to the Soviet people. Bearing in mind that the occupiers would have to perform punitive functions, the Dropshot plan provided for additional provision of troops with transport of all types to give them mobility.

Both in the previous plans of aggression and in the Dropshot plan, the war against the Soviet Union and the occupation had a pronounced class character. The need for war was determined by “the serious threat to the security of the United States, which... represents the nature of the Soviet system... Never before in history have the intentions and strategic goals of the aggressor been so clearly defined. For centuries, victory in the class struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie has been defined as a means, with the help which communism will dominate the world." "Dropshot" was a turning point in American military planning in the sense that, unlike previous plans, which had in mind aggression by purely military means, in this war against the USSR attention was paid to the use of class allies on the other side of the front, that is, "dissidents." The term becomes accepted in military plans. Of course, staff planners had no illusions about the strength of the “dissidents” themselves: “It will be more difficult to apply psychological warfare methods to the people of the USSR than to the people of the United States...

But psychological warfare is an extremely important weapon for promoting dissidence and betrayal among the Soviet people; will undermine his morale, will sow confusion and create disorganization in the country... Broad psychological warfare is one of the most important tasks of the United States. Its main goal is to destroy the support of the people of the USSR and its satellites for their current system of government and to spread the awareness among the peoples of the USSR that the overthrow of the Politburo is within the realm of reality... Effective resistance or uprisings can only be expected when the Western allies can provide material assistance and leadership and reassure dissidents that liberation is at hand."

If we take into account that, according to the concept of the “Drop-Shot” plan, not only NATO countries, but a number of states in Asia and the Middle East were supposed to act on the side of the United States, of their own free will or under pressure, while Latin America and Africa were assigned the role of a reserve and sources of raw materials , then the mentioned operations in the Far East and Southeast Asia sum it up: Washington intended to wipe out socialism with an armed hand from the face of the entire earth. This meant simultaneously achieving the cherished goal of the American oligarchy - the establishment of world domination of the United States. If you need official proof coming from the US ruling elite, then here it is - the Drop Shot Plan!

Then why was it possible for researchers to gain access to it? A. Brown, who published this plan in a book with appropriate comments in 1978, notes: “The Dropshot Plan, the American plan for world war against the Soviet Union, was prepared by a committee within the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1949, under the direction and knowledge of the President Harry S. Truman... Military geography does not change. But conventional weapons change only in the degree of their destructive power. The battlefields of 1949-1957 may very well become the battlefields of a future war. These obvious considerations lead to the posing of the most important question: is it not stupidity "Publicize the Dropshot plan? I've thought a lot about this and am forced to conclude: yes, making this document public is stupid. It should have been burned, buried or stored in the most secret safe, because it does not make America attractive in the eyes of Russia." Dropshot was not only a plan for the atomization of Russia, but provided for the occupation of a huge country by American troops and the destruction of the roots of Bolshevism. Undoubtedly, in our critical time, when the Cold War has ceased, albeit temporarily, and the political and ideological war rages with unabated force, the Russians will point out : Dropshot is an example of America's continued hostility towards Russia, and therefore Russia must maintain and expand its military.

Then why was it possible to publish the Dropshot plan? There are no laws requiring the Joint Chiefs of Staff to declassify it... The document and its accompanying materials collectively show: 1) the United States could well have lost World War III; 2) Russia could probably occupy Western Europe in 20 days; 3) the command of the US Air Force believed that Russia would be able to knock out the then main American ally, England, with its bases, which were of paramount importance for launching atomic strikes, in 60 days; 4) Russian atomic bombing and communist guerrilla warfare in the United States would significantly undermine America's ability and will to continue the war; 5) America would not be able to protect its own cities; 6) It would take the United States two years for its industry and military to reach a level that would allow an American military return to Europe and 7) The United States intended to occupy Russia, running the risk of unabated guerrilla warfare there...

The Drop-Shot plan is notable not so much for its military aspects - ultimately, it differed from previous plans only quantitatively; from the beginning of the war, the plan provided for dropping atomic bombs not on 70, but on 100 Soviet cities, etc., but qualitatively - it substantiated the urgent need for psychological warfare in peacetime. The editors of Dropshot emphasized: “Psychological warfare is an extremely important weapon for promoting dissidence and betrayal among the Soviet people; it will undermine their morale, sow confusion and create disorganization in the country... Widespread psychological warfare is one of the most important tasks of the United States. Main its goal is to stop the people of the USSR and its satellites from supporting their current system of government.” The term “dissidents” is firmly included in the planning of aggression against the USSR. Dissidents, or so-called dissidents, were recognized as soldiers on the other side of the front of psychological warfare. Without foreign support, dissidents are nothing as a weapon in the fight against Soviet power. Written in the Dropshot plan: “Effective resistance or uprising can only be expected when the Western Allies can provide material assistance and leadership, assuring dissidents that liberation is at hand...”.

, Middle East and Japan. It was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on December 19, 1949.

Name [ | ]

In Soviet historical sources, as a rule, the name “Dropshot” was used in Russian letters without translation:

At the direction of the government, the Joint Chiefs of Staff developed a war plan beginning in 1949, codenamed “Dropshot,” a deliberately meaningless name in the interests of maintaining secrecy.

However, nowadays translations of the name are sometimes found: Instant Strike, Short kick, The last shoot.

Plan Prerequisites[ | ]

The plan was developed under the conditions of the Cold War, the origins of which lay in the struggle for influence in the post-war world between the USSR and the Western allies. The Polish question and the clearly emerging desire of the USSR to establish communist control over at least all of Eastern Europe forced Winston Churchill back in April 1945 to instruct the Joint Military Command Planning Staff to develop a plan for an offensive war against the USSR (Operation “Unthinkable”). These developments, however, were met with skepticism by the Joint Chiefs of Staff; They didn’t even show themselves to the Americans. At the end of 1945, there was an aggravation in relations between the USSR and the British-Americans due to the USSR’s refusal to withdraw troops from Northern Iran and the creation of a puppet state entity there - the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (see Iranian crisis). In May 1946, the USSR, under pressure from the United States and Great Britain, withdrew troops from Iran, at the same time Stalin began to publicly voice territorial claims against Turkey, and on August 7, Turkey was presented with a note, which, as many believed at the time, would inevitably be followed by a Soviet invasion. The tough position of the USA and Great Britain prevented this. Tensions between the USSR and its former allies reached their peak in June 1948 - May 1949 as a result of the blockade of West Berlin.

All this happened against the background of the establishment of communist regimes in the countries of Eastern Europe controlled by the USSR and the active support of the then strong communist movement in Western Europe. Given the overwhelming superiority of Soviet forces in Europe, military weakness and communist infiltration of the two leading Western European countries - France and Italy, Western politicians feared that the USSR could undertake large-scale aggression and take over Western Europe in one swift throw. It is precisely this scenario that the second version of the “Unthinkable” plan, drawn up in London in the summer of 1945, is designed for.

According to the American historian Edward Mark, it was the crisis around Turkey in August 1946 and the military preparations of the USSR that led the American command to develop the first serious plan for a nuclear war against the USSR, and this, in turn, led the United States to refuse further escalation conflict fraught with the outbreak of war.

Also prerequisites for the development of this plan is that the Soviet leadership rejected the “Baruch Plan” proposed by the United States with a veto in the UN Security Council, since such a plan would clearly slow down the USSR’s movement towards creating its own nuclear potential, which would help maintain the US monopoly on the possession nuclear weapons.

Previous plans in case of war with the USSR[ | ]

The first American plan in case of war with the USSR, Totality, was developed at the end of 1945 at Eisenhower's headquarters. Active development of military plans began after the start of the blockade of West Berlin (June 21, 1948). A plan for war with the USSR was immediately drawn up, which, however, was not put into effect by President Truman. On August 18, the US National Security Council issued a memorandum “Tasks regarding the USSR” (NSC 20/1). The memorandum, commissioned by Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, was supposed to define the long-term goals and objectives of American policy towards the USSR.

Tasks were divided into peaceful and military. In the first case, it was assumed only the elimination of the system of ideological domination of the Soviet Communist Party over the satellite countries, in the second - if possible, the elimination of the Soviet regime throughout the entire territory of the USSR, the unconditional removal of the existing leadership from power, but without long-term occupation of the country and the forcible imposition of democracy.

In any case, after the American victory, Russia:

• should not be so militarily strong as to influence its neighbors;
• must grant broad autonomy to national minorities;
• must be economically dependent on the outside world;
• should not establish a new “iron curtain”.

Further American planning (including the Dropshot plan) is based on the political guidelines of this memorandum.

The plans at that time envisaged achieving success primarily through massive nuclear bombing of Soviet territory, which was supposed to undermine the economic potential and cause psychological shock among the population and the army (however, it was recognized that psychologically they could also lead to the opposite effect - rallying around the government).

Plan Details[ | ]

The plan, which was primarily a strategic study, was based on a number of assumptions and the conclusions and extrapolations drawn from them. The authors of the plan proceeded from the following premises:

• The communist leaders of the USSR strive for world domination and the establishment of communist regimes throughout the world, and this desire is the main and only threat to the security of the United States.
• The immediate target of Soviet expansion will inevitably be Western Europe.
• Currently, the USSR's capabilities are limited compared to those of the United States, but by 1955, as the Soviet economy strengthened, the USSR would be able to launch serious air attacks against the United States using nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and extensive underwater operations (including the launch of short-range guided missiles) and military air operations.
• At the moment, there are no signs that the USSR was deliberately planning large-scale aggression, but nevertheless, for a number of reasons, the risk of war is high.

Basic Assumptions[ | ]

Additional Assumptions[ | ]

• The USSR will be ahead of the NATO countries with mobilization and by the day the hostilities begin it will be able to field mobilized forces. NATO countries will receive the necessary information from intelligence and also begin mobilization, but they will be late, and their mobilization will not make significant progress by the day the fighting begins.
• Nuclear weapons will be used by both sides.
• Political relations between the USA and the USSR, as well as their allies, will be proportional to those existing at the time the plan is developed.
• The Soviet military machine will develop systematically, without any radical, extremely intensive rearmament programs.

Key strategic requirements[ | ]

The main strategic requirements of the plan were as follows:

The launch of numerous nuclear strikes on government and industrial centers, due to the location of many of them in densely populated cities, inevitably implied the destruction of tens of millions of civilian Soviet citizens.

Soviet response[ | ]

The problem of a retaliatory strike unacceptable to the enemy arose in full force. The difficulty of solving it was that the Americans were going to bombard us with nuclear weapons from European bases, and we could only stop them by retaliatory bombing directly on US territory. Launch vehicles, as is known, appeared in service with the Soviet troops only in 1959. At the time of the deployment of Operation Dropshot, we could only rely on long-range aviation.

After the secret test of the first Soviet atomic bomb on September 1, 1949, the US military detected radioactive traces of a nuclear test in an air sample during a routine flight over the Pacific Ocean. After this, it became clear that a gratuitous strike was impossible from now on.

And the F-106 Delta Dart), including those armed with air-to-air guided missiles, and the deployment in 1953-1960 of more than 245 divisions of Nike-Ajax missiles around US strategic targets made the likelihood of a breakthrough by Soviet bombers very small. The appearance in 1960 of extra-long-range anti-aircraft missiles CIM-10 Bomarc (range of up to 450 km) led to the almost complete impossibility for Soviet bombers to break through to US territory.

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