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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (37090)8/11/2002 8:55:59 PM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The Germans were fairly good on this logistics and stuff, yet the Russians won the biggest battles of WW2.

Not only Hitler, Napoleon was beaten by the Russian "super weapons" of Weather, Distance, Mud and Snow.

If the Germans could maim and kill nearly a million men in the Battle of Berlin, in very primitive conditions, why does this give you confidence that the Russians could not repeat the exercise on the USA armies invading the mother country?

The Sherman tank was good on firm roads, of which there were plenty in Europe. Off roads it did not do so well according to the records. The evidence at Normandy was a terrible shock to the USA tank crews.

Eisenhower handled the situation well and brought the boys back home after Germany was defeated. The USA is a democracy after all and politics count more then anything.

I have every respect for the USA armed forces and the industrial back up machine. The civilian viewpoint..What happens if things go wrong and historical casualty rates start to happen is more my concern. The American public needs to think this through imho. A pre-emptive attack would possibly not look good in those conditions

However...yes I still believe the USA could have lost a million, maybe two million or more invading Russia.... If they got to Moscow at all.
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