Suddenly in 1989, East Germany takes down the Iron Curtain. The cold war thaws into a hopeful spring. What was NATO going to do with all those tanks, planes, and troops? Worse, what were the generals going to do to keep their jobs? No enemies to fight, and the politicians were promising a peace dividend to citizens by closing military bases. A common quip of the Berliners in the last days of WWII "Enjoy the war. The peace will be terrible" now seemed a reality for poor NATO.
Of course, the peace dividend never materialized and NATO justified its continued existence by discovering more wolves howling on the doorstep.
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