James Stejskal is a military historian, conflict archaeologist, and the author of The Horns of the Beast: The Swakop River Campaign and World War I in South-West Africa, 1914-15. He currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Wanda.
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The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. U.S. military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the juggernaut they expected when and if a war began. The plan was Special Fo... SEE MORE