The force comparison exposes a contradiction in Western claims about amphibious warfare. Western debates could dismiss the mission as too dangerous in the missile age, while the Warsaw Pact built and retained a large collection of ocean-going amphibious ships and coastal landing craft. That investment does not prove every landing would succeed. It does show that the Warsaw Pact still regarded amphibious forces as useful.
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The Warsaw Pact's answer to amphibious obsolescence claims
Western claims that amphibious warfare had become too dangerous sat awkwardly beside a Warsaw Pact fleet that was expanding the very capability supposedly made obsolete by modern threats.