COLD WAR OUTPOST History Group

Briefing Issue 4- 11/01/25 (Revised) Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, was a pivotal military alliance established by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states during the height of the Cold War. Signed on May 14, 1955, in Warsaw, Poland, it served as a collective defense mechanism and a direct counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which had been formed in 19

Briefing Issue 3- 11/18/25 REFORGER (Return of Forces to Germany) Wisconsin National Guard Moral patch . Form the Cold War Outpost Collection REFORGER, an acronym for "Return of Forces to Germany" (also known as "Redeployment of FORces to GERmany"), was a series of annual NATO military exercises conducted from 1969 to 1993 during the Cold War. These large-scale maneuvers simulated the rapid reinforcement of Western European defenses against a potential Soviet invasio