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Message: <blockquote data-quote="71buickfreak" data-source="post: 1723545" data-attributes="member: 8373"><p>OBVIOUSLY you didn't pay attention in the movie when they explained how the ruskies did it. They were disguised as commercial airliners, PanAm 147 and the like. They deployed from all over the world, it wasn't just 30 planes Russia. Thousands of planes come into the US everyday, THOUSANDS. As long as they have the proper identification, it is not an issue. The planes were not just painted up like commercial planes, they were registered as commercial planes, for all intents and purposes, they were legit commercial flights that were filled with guns and troops. And that movie was made in the 80s, security was considerably more relaxed. The cuban/mexican armies walked across the Rio Grande, but they hit the Texas/Oklahoma border and stopped butt-cold. The paratroopers were just part of the first wave, kinda like what we did at Normandy. Dropped a crap-ton guys behind the lines while everybody else stormed the beach. The element of surprise does wonders for strategic offensives.</p></blockquote><p></p>