THE REFORGER ERA
s the Cold War progressed, the threat of an offensive by the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies was the paramount concern for NATO, whose HQ moved to Brussels, Belgium, in 1967. To prepare for this eventuality the United States along with Belgium, France, the Netherlands, West Germany and the United Kingdom organised the Return of Forces to Germany exercises, aka REFORGER. The rationale behind it was to practise the air bridge for bringing full US Army divisions to the European mainland and then the West German plains, where
