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The time between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Iron Curtain was one of the few periods in history where a large part of the British Army knew where their enemy was, what they had to do and could spend most of its time practicing for the event of war breaking out. NATO faced the Warsaw Pact over a single border, SOXMIS and BRIXMIS were 'legal' spies and 'Active Edge' was the ultimate in readiness exercise for a whole Corps.

Said to be 'the good old days' due to the fact that there were no shortages of men, vehicles or equipment but it wasn't all that 'good' knowing that 3rd Shock Army were over the other side of the IGB ready to roll all the way to the channel coast if things went wrong on the political and diplomatic front.