When I first looked at this cover, I thought "pretty cool" but it would be a better fit for the game if they lost the man and just left the shadow....

I really dig the cover, personally.

Not what I expected, but nice.

The artist got the perspective wrong! Look at the stone slabs and the fences! I don't know about you, but any schoolkid is expected to get such elementary stuff right...

Furthermore, what are those fences doing there anyway? It's all wrong. There were never such fences there. Irksome.

What happened to the Roger MacGowan who brought us such a fine cover as the one PoG's got?

and it does not get better with the cover for Comnd and Colors: Ancient
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/111639

rofl for a fraction of a second there I thought you were not joking... anyway, I like the vertigo effect of the messed-up perspective.

Aaaah that is clearly a symbolic representation of the times. If we were to make everything perfect it would not reflect the truth of the cold war!
It is an obscure esthetic reference. psychobabble etc etc