The Cold War by Priscilla Roberts

Author:Priscilla Roberts [Roberts, Priscilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752494784
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Olympians warm up on three relatively routine games: negotiations for a disarmament treaty; simultaneous crises in Berlin and Cuba; and turmoil in the Middle East. The games introduce the Olympians to a world in which the United States is threatened by Communists around the globe. (Playing the third warm-up game, the Blue Team decides to explode a nuclear bomb a hundred miles off the Soviet coast as a warning. The game report notes that the Olympians did not balk at any action “even though it means full-scale nuclear war.”) The crucial fourth game, dubbed DAFT (for “decade after”), departs from the Blue-Red team format; instead, the Olympians are asked to respond to three scenarios that might have come straight out of the Twilight Zone. Each scenario breaks off at a crucial moment. The Olympians must produce an ending that will help guide planners of U.S. strategy in the decade ahead.

The first scenario envisions America's defeat in a nuclear war in the early 1970s. Enraged, one of the players says, “The real reason why we lost the war was the failure of the President.” Criticism of President Kennedy punctuates the scenarios. Those same scenarios had circulated among Kennedy's military and civilian policy planners but had not been played. “I tried unsuccessfully for several months to get anyone to use them,” an anonymous Control tells the Olympians. “You were a heaven-sent opportunity.”

As the first scenario opens, NATO has begun to crack following 1963 elections of Communist governments in France and Italy. West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt (who really would become chancellor of West Germany in 1969) makes a deal with East Germany, and a united Germany is reborn.

The scenario continues:

Desperate conferences between England, Canada and the U.S. ended when England agreed to withdraw all troops from the European Continent, but insisted on the free passage of U.S., Canadian, and English troops and equipment to their homelands. The ensuing evacuations resembled Dunkirk; women and children were flown out, minus nearly all personal possessions; every available ship was pressed into service to evacuate the streams of military convoys converging on the western European ports, through crowds of jeering or crying people.

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