At the hight of Cold War tensions, and following on from Exercise NATO's Nuclear Exercise Able Archer 83 that almost caused an accidental WW3, the British Army carried out its largest ever exercise Lionheart 84 testing the full scale reinforcement of the British Army of the Rhine.. it involved 131,000 troops, including 39,500 Territorial Army soldiers, 17,000 active regular British Army and 2,000 of the RAF being brought over from the UK to West Germany within a fast time window of days, it coin

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