Ah yes, a war in which an entire theatre was won by ground fighting while the unprecedented levels of aircraft use did very little but sure let's use aircraft to nuke Russia and see what happens.
consistent with what i already know from other sources. where is ukraine? in with russia? wasn't really a country as such or for long but loss of life there was huge during the war. not to mention the millions stalin murdered prior.
Bullshit, they never had enough fuel and lost too many trucks in the first winter they faced in Russia. Russia casualties would certainly have been much higher without lend-lease but the issue of super long shitty supply lines was pivotal. Germany strayed from their plan almost immediately in the invasion of Russia when Hitler directly ordered panzer divisions to be split from the front and used as flank security, something that they didn't have enough forces to do.
What the fuck? The English had practically won the Mediterranean campaign before America even became involved and the rest was simple mopping up.
there was an alt hist i read. the idea was that hitler was a navy vet,not army,and had it in his head that the med was the place to beat UK. i actually think he might should have put barbarossa on the back burner and gone after the med at least 1st. had dunkirk been successfully handled a la guderian,UK might have not been a big factor in mid east. might have agreed to a peace deal? who knows?
Yeah It's almost like getting your country invaded leads to a massively higher death count than mere combat loses.
They shrugged both bombs off ,the russians coming across their border had the bigger effect they wanted an american deal many economists will tell you japan won ww2 in the late 50,s /early 60,s . Air power did not deliver the promises during ww2 nor did it beat a bunch of people wearing sandals and using bicycles on jungle trails . A study by nato on nuclear tactical weapons release in the 80,s said if nato held air superiority the russians would be at the english channel in weeks ,if nato held air supremacy 2 months . It was a given that it would go nuclear and europe would burn but it was also predicted that it could be brought to a halt BEFORE any thing hit the US .
Ran out of fuel, like almost every other time the Germans failed. It's a very consistent theme for WW2 Germany.
Impossible, the best way of looking at Hitlers plans is that it was a racial war of extinction between Germans and Slavs. Even the French part was because the Germans worked out in the 1800s that they could not win a two front war, so they wrap France up first to being the real fight, exterminating anyone on the list of sub human.
that was my point and i think it was a loser. could make the case that hitler would not have gained power without the appeal of anti semitism,slav hate and "stab in the back" thinking. of course versailles,the depression and open combat with reds in the street were something that helped his program.
Sure... bombs raining out of the sky don't have any effect on war fare... Got it. lol
I am not anti air power quite the opposite it is a vital VITAL part of combined arms . June 6 1944 would not have happened without it , the PTO would have taken 1 or more years longer with a conditional surrender and a russian influence.
VERY long reading US strategic bombing survey european theater WW2 and the pacific theater ...air power helped as did armor ,artillery , submarines ,battleships etc
Yeah 1,000,000 red troops into Manchuria sacred the shit out of the Japs too and why they became out ally. I still don't beileve Japan and the Soviet Union ever officially signed a peace treaty to this day.
Well we live on the ground, so obviously ground troops are essential in the process.
1...iirc the russians signed japans surrender along with all the allies on the missouri
and yet it failed to halt supplies going south or bomb them back to the stone age
The allies accidentally bombed fucking Switzerland like seventy times, they routinely missed by hundreds of kilometres and when they were directly over their targets you needed something like fifty bombers to have a good chance of a few bombs hitting the target.
Planes will play no part in the nuclear end of the world, their ability to deliver nukes was superseded.
She'd still get some, plus if you used some nuke talk I bet she'd get excited. Book worms like that are always hidden freaks, kinda like elementary school teachers.This video was very disappointing.
Very...
In the screenshot/promo header for that video, she looks reasonably hot in a business/euro kind of way.
Not so much in the video.
#yesiamthatshallow
Russia Launched about a dozen dud ICBM's into Dnipro last night, MIRVs with 24 separate re entry vehicles. I bet those monitoring were shitting their pants.
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I think that was a pretty brilliant move on the part of the RU. They are making a statement of capability and constraint at the same time. Their version of "please don't make me do this."
