(May 27, 2014 at 6:12 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That must be why they lost the war, then?
A failure to learn from history.
"We've established a Third Reich"
"What happened to the first one?"
"We fought a war with the combined forces of the world and lost."
"What happened to the second one?"
"We fought a war with the combined forces of the world and lost."
"OK, so what's the plan now?"
"We're going to fight a war with the combined forces of the world and hope it works out this time."
(See also "the South shall rise again" and "building democracy in the Middle East just like we did in South East Asia")
At the end of the day, Germany is not that big a country. It doesn't matter how shiny your modern weapons are, how disciplined your troops or how brilliant your generals. Eventually, you bite off more than you can chew, nationalistic resistance groups bleed you from within your empire, the rest of the world unites against you and you finally run out of manpower and production.
The very fact that Germany was able to make either World War a close contest or even a lengthy war at all is a testimony to how well they could fight.
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