I'm trying to help set up a cold war era scenario in Arma 3 for my group called the 48th Mechanized Infantry. http://www.48mi.org/
I would appreciate help finding information to make a fairly authentic scenario involving USA against Russia/USSR.
At this point I'm looking at setting the scenario in the late 80's or sometime in the 90's.
While I do like military related subjects I find that I'm not very knowledgeable, so I'm going to need plenty of information.
Any related information would be useful, but at the moment of starting my research I'm looking for:
What kind of weapons/vehicles would US mechanized infantry be using in this time frame?
How would the weapons be distributed? for example what would a squad have with them?
What kind of squad tactics would be used?
What weapons/armor would Russia/USSR be using?
Information and links are appreciated. I don't mind doing some reading on my own if you have a source that I could use.
Unfortunately it's getting a bit late so I can't think of anymore specific questions. If you have related information that you think I might need feel free to post it. Thanks again for the help!
Also this is my first post for reddit so I'm trying to make the format as easy on the eyes as I can make it.
A useful book on the hardware side would be The Cold War: A Military History by David Miller.
The title is relatively inaccurate in that the book is a history of the equipment used by both sides: planes, ships, armored vehicles, missiles, etc, not a history of the Cold War. Nowadays it's very inexpensive, to boot.
It doesn't go into tactics, and I seem to remember it going down the company level as far as equipment goes... it's been a while since I've referenced it, so it may not go that low.
Still, for forty cents, you can't really go wrong.