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* [[We Are Not the Wehrmacht]] - Most of the land war takes place in Germany, and the German armed forces appropriately feature heavily.
* [[We Could Have Avoided All This]]: When the oil crisis is revealed near the novel's end, an American laments that the whole war could have been avoided if the Soviet had just ''asked'' for help as the West would have been happy to give aid. Which is a bit idealistic, given that this is the Cold War. Aside from revealing their own weakness to their mortal enemies, the Soviet leadership expected that oil aid to come with major strings attached.
** Being fair, even the American officer in the conversation freely admits that the aid would have come with 'requests' for concessions. He just made the entirely reasonable point that said concessions would still have been far, far less expensive than actually having a war.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]] - One of the Marines protests when Edwards is about to summarily execute their Russian prisoners. However, he and everyone else quickly accepts that they wouldn't have been able to take the Russians with them anyway and there was no way they could leave living witnesses.
* [[World War Three]]
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