Local Skirmishes

World War III, which began in the autumn of 1962, is gaining momentum; everything is used: atomic weapons, poisonous gases, and combat viruses. Fighting has already begun in the most remote corners of the planet. And even there, such as in a remote place like Kamchatka, the battles become extremely fierce. Even if, in the global strategy of the standoff between two superpowers, everything described in this book is only a minor episode, behind each unit in the figures of losses, behind every erased conventional symbol on the tactical maps, stand hundreds—and even thousands—of lives. That’s what local battles really are.