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How Military Exercises Became Intelligence Traps During the Cold War

During the Cold War, large-scale military exercises evolved from routine training events into high-risk intelligence environments where observation, interpretation, and miscalculation carried strategic consequences. This documentary examines how exercises exposed command structures, mobilization capacity, escalation behavior, and political-military coordination to adversary intelligence services, often in greater detail than covert operations ever could. Moving chronologically from early postwar maneuvers to late Cold War war games, it explains how repeated observation turned exercises into intelligence baselines, how ambiguity forced adversaries to reveal their assumptions, and why realistic training became one of the most dangerous moments of peacetime competition. By focusing on exercises as intelligence traps rather than as rehearsals for combat, the film reveals how routine military activity shaped perception, risk tolerance, and crisis stability throughout the Cold War. #coldwar #militaryexercises #intelligencehistory #geopolitics #warplanning #nato #warsawpact #coldwardocumentary