Operation Pincher: Stalin's Drive In the Middle East, 1949

Operation Pincher (OP) is an alternative history wargame, designed by Ty Bomba, which allows two players to investigate the strategic parameters that would’ve been in place in southeastern Europe and the Middle East had Stalin attacked there at that time, most likely in conjunction with a drive into Western Europe. His goal in starting such an operation would’ve been to blitz to the oilfields and Allied base areas in North Africa and the upper Persian Gulf. That would’ve effectively broken the geostrategic back of the British Commonwealth of Nations, disrupted Europe’s oil supply, and delayed the US from being able to mount an atomic bombardment campaign into the USSR.…