>>1803221
>early cold war
Most militaries are still using WW2 equipment and fighting with WW2 tactics, or hand-me-downs from it. Jet aircraft were unreliable and lacked the optics and kill chain integration to provide effective all-condition CAS (hell, we were still struggling with this in Iraq), early main battle tanks had little to no electronics and were essentially just WW2 heavy tanks with better engines/suspension

Most of the cool stuff we remember the cold war for, like the rapid progression of electronic warfare and radar fire control, the breakneck pace of combat aircraft development, the emergence of the modern MBT, helicopter warfare etc. only really came about in the second half of the era. The US army fighting in vietnam was still mentally the US that had fought in Normandy--and in fact the lack of modernization was part of why they suffered so many casualties there compared to later conflicts.

But also in practice the late cold war is just an excuse to have a 'modern' military RTS while sidestepping a lot of the technical and legal red tape involved with trying to invoke ongoing conflicts or modern military hardware that are still being licensed and sold. You don't have to pay Porsche a licensing fee for putting their Tiger in a WW2 game because you're depicting history and that kind of content is protected, but it gets a little more complicated depicting a modern Leopard without paying Krauss royalties for it.

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