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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: maceng2 who wrote (37908)8/15/2002 8:21:32 AM
From: Hoa Hao  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The problem for the Germans Pearly, was that there weren't enough Germans to go around. It takes alot to develop a 4 engine bomber and to put it into mass production, especially when you have so much else on your plate. Hitler choose the short war idea for a good reason; he felt that Germany would be unable to last a long one based on just what Germany had. Problem was, he had a lot more resources once all of Europe folded, and he didn't change his planning til late in the game. He still didn't have enough, IM(never humble)O, but could have done a better job of it.

"The entrance into service of the Tu-4 threw the USAF into a virtual panic,"

I always get a big kick out of hyperbole like this. "Caputured bases in Iceland" is another good belly laugh. One can hardly imagine how the Sovs would get there. Maybe the massive Soviet fleet will sail there while you Brits in the form of the RN sit terrified at Scapa Flow. hehe... I got it, a over the pole paratrooper drop in mid winter!!

The fact is, all this was done to get the jump on what the Soviets could do and was part of Ike's "Massive retaliation". The Nike system would have been expanded to include missile defense, defanging the Sovs effectively through the 70s. In many respects, the Soviets mass producing B-29s was throwing money into an obsolete weapons system compared to what the west could put up in defense. Here's another book you might want to get: Norman Friedman's "The Fifty Year War".
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