RE: History thread [split] from "New Rule - Promoting Terrorism"
June 25, 2018 at 7:16 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2018 at 7:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 22, 2018 at 10:46 am)Huggy74 Wrote: It's amazing that the ones justifying the nuclear bombing of innocents are the same ones speaking on how evil the bible is (which none of you think is real btw).
Small and closed minds amazes easily.
(June 25, 2018 at 6:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(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.
Actually, the industrial base of Germany and occupied Europe was entirely sufficient to overwhelm the USSR and Britain. It’s just that Germany made such piss poor use of it. Germany had steel and armament industry 3 times the size of those of USSR in 1941. In 1942 the german industry base got bigger and the Soviet industry got smaller. Yet the Soviet Union produces 7 tanks for every one the Germans produced in 1942!
At the eve of Stalingrad near the end of 1942 the german army inspectors were still rejecting brand new tanks because the the welds around the towing hook of out of spec.
Throughout the war, the Germany and occupied Europe produced about as heavy military trucks as did the USSR, despite having a much larger automotive industrial base. The US then provided to the USSR 4 times more heavy military Trucks as the whole of Germany and occupied Europe managed to produce during the entire war.
Someone estimated during wwii, total german war production from available industrial capacity amounted to only about 1/3 of what they would have been had the Americans ran the german war industry.
One might say the Germans lost because 1. Hitler was a war monger who really didn’t take war seriously. He wanted to conquer but made preciously little deep preparation for fighting. 2. He chose to declare war on the United States out of spite in a moment of heady exuberance in the the aftermath of Pearl Harbor when he should have offered massive concessions to prevent the US from declaring war on him.
