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[JDR Dragoon]

What do i see, in 1954 it could have worked, in the 80s it would have been a dream. No way at all to accomplish that one. You could always take the ferry but real men dont take the ferry.

Well, there was some criticism of the concept, especially in the NVA who didn´t really want to lavish scarce resources on maintaining their small amphibious capability (funnily enough the East German Navy was very keen on the proposition, since it meant they would be given a starring role). But the plans were continually updated and the navies of the WAPA navies in the Baltic built up contingents of various amphibious ships during the 60s and 70s (so they wouldn´t have taken the ferry, although a 1977 plan has an NVA battalion using a civilian ferry at the start of hostilities to launch a coup-de-main against a major port to capture it intact....). The last updated plan complex we have is a principle sketch dated 1983 from the hands of Marshall Kulikov (the chief of the soviet general staff) detailing how the War, when or if it came, should be fought by the Front responsible for the conquest of Denmark and the drive along the North Sea coast towards Holland. The last polish amphibious exercise was conducted in 1986. The only part of this 1954 exercise that wasn´r a staple of later plans, was the invasions of southern Sweden (but that that task might just have been fobbed off on some other unit, most likely a soviet one whose plan complexes we have no knowledge of today)

So in conclusion the other side thought the amphibious invasion of the danish isles just as "doable" as the rest of the invasion plans. Polish marines wading ashore on Zealand would have been just as much a part and parcel of WW3 as T80s rolling through Fuld Gap.