Modern War n°53 - Objective Kassel

In issue 53 of Modern War, you’ll read about :

• Objective Kassel & Seven Days to the Rhine: War in Europe in the 1980s: In this fourth installment of the Seven Days to the Rhine Series, we analyze the situation on the British sector of the front.
• The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963–1974): Guinea has been called "Portugal's Vietnam," due to the similarities of terrain, tactics, and equipment including helicopters, riverine warfare, and the widespread use of airpower and defoliants. Added to this was the internal political turmoil the war created in Portugal.
• Tanks in the Central Highlands: ARVN and NVA Armor in Laos, 1971: Operation Lam Son 719 aimed to cross the border into Laos and disrupt the Hồ Chí Minh Trail, used by North Vietnam to move supplies and troops south. This operation would lead to the first armored action between North and South Vietnamese forces.
• Disputed Islands: Iran’s Seizure of Abu Musa and the Tunb Islands: The UAE continues to make its case, and enjoys widespread international support, over its legal claims to these islands. The Iranians, however, refuse to shift their rigid stance and, regardless of international opinion, insist on the 1992 status quo. Here’s the history.

This issue 53 comes with Objective Kassel, a two-player alternative history wargame. Objective Kassel investigates the operational parameters that would have been in place during the first four days of fighting in that border area of West Germany, had the Soviet Union decided to try to attack sometime in the early 1980s. It was during that timeframe the Warsaw Pact achieved a possible decisive “correlation of forces” between their militaries and those of the West.
This game is the fourth volume of the 7DR (Seven Days to the Rhine) Series. Each single-volume game uses the same system and will be playable alone or mated to other games in the series. Each hexagon on the map represents 2.5 miles (four kilometers) from side to opposite side. The Warsaw Pact regiments, while the units of maneuver on the NATO side are battalions. Air power and electronic warfare counters and rules abstractly represent, the effects of one side or the other gaining temporary superiority within those sub-realms of conflict. Each day of real time consists of one nighttime and two daylight turns.

Components:

• One 22" x 34" map
• 280 counters