For several decades during the cold war, the US Berlin Brigade (and its British and French counterparts) defended West Berlin. What could those hugely outnumbered American soldiers have done had the Red Army attacked? As strategist Thomas Schelling bluntly put it, they could die – heroically perhaps – but in any case American military power would seek to avenge them. That tripwire deterred the Soviets and kept West Berlin free.
冷戰的數十年間，美軍柏林旅(Berlin Brigade)（同英法士兵一道）保衛著西柏林。如果蘇聯紅軍發起進攻，寡不敵衆的美國士兵能做些什麼呢？如同戰略家托馬斯•謝林(Thomas Schelling)不客氣地指出的一般，美國士兵會被殺死（也許是英勇就義），但美國軍隊無論如何都會爲他們報仇。這個絆索讓蘇聯不敢輕舉妄動，也讓西柏林保持著自由。
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