It almost certainly started when I was in Berlin during the mid-1980s. I was one of the air defence staff with NATO's Tactical Leadership Programme (TLP) based at Jever in Germany's Lower Saxony, which schooled NATO aircrew in the art of multinational air defence and strike missions. As part of my role, I'd expanded the ground school to encompass the opposing Soviet weapons and tactics, which inevitably led to analysing the quality of its training and the skill of its pilots.
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