NATO, WAPA and the indefensibility of LandJut in NGP and D85

[alaric99x]

What NATO planners knew for a fact (as corroborated from info gotten after the collapse of the WP) was that they would have ample time to react.

I can verify that, at least in part. I worked in the (US) Berlin Brigade HQ Communication Center from '73 to '75. We were in the basement of the HQ complex located on Clayallee. It was a secret then, but not anymore. We had daily reports about any convoy movement in East Germany, and well beyond, including time of movement, units, equipment, origin and destination. Daily reports of maritime movements and sorties by WP air units, including aircraft numbers, types, units, and origins and destinations. It was a TS (top secret) facility and I had access to the daily intel reports. Based on my experience, it's hard for me to imagine that NATO would ever have been surprised by a WP attack.