(June 20, 2018 at 6:25 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The lesson of WWII is to never start a war unless you have superior weapon systems and the ability to defend yourself. Germany, Japan, and Italy thought that they were fighting WWI. Our current danger is that we seem to be thinking that we are fighting WWII.
The Germans alone had a superior tactical understanding of what had to happen at the outbreak of the war. They simply could not deal with the idiot leading them - the US has a similar problem now.
The Italians were essentially unprepared for any sort of modern warfare.
The Japanese lost the war the minute the first plane took off on December 7.
All three lacked the industrial base to keep up with their ambitions.
