The Russians did, in 1914, what you speculate on the US doing. It got them some of the worst of the conflict, and absolutely the worst of the result. They did, in the longer run, save France.
In 1940 the French and British had a massive preponderance of resources. It was their lack of knowledge in their proper use that caused their defeat. Had the US had resources in 1940, and had been able to deploy them, then we, too, would have been banned from Belgium until the German attack, and would have thundered into the trap, right along with the French and British.
It was, of course, that debacle, that showed the US general staff how to organize the modern assets properly, and ultimately bring Germany down... |
