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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (53401)	7/22/2002 7:11:48 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The German's HAD to get through the Royal Navy. It wasn't going to be on a pleasure cruise off in the Mediterranean. And, except for subs, the Germans had a rather anemic navy. When they took France and suddenly found themselves staring at Dover, they had no landing craft at all. They did start manufacturing them, but they never made enough to get ashore a force large enough to hold. And given the ships and landing craft they needed, they STILL had to stop the RAF from sinking the invasion force. They never got control of the air over the channel and Britain. Hitler thought he was a military genius. It's a good thing he had that delusion. Otherwise he might have let the generals run the war.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (53401)	7/22/2002 7:57:36 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

We should thank our lucky stars that the same egoistic meglomania that got him to where he was in 1939 remained with him throughout the war. One possible alternative history is that the cold war would have been between the US and Germany. Perhaps with England under Germany and the US pushed in to some sort of peace agreement with Japan. It would have taken more then just Hitler letting his generals decide the strategy in my opinion, particuarly in the Pacific where we could produce ships faster then Japan (And faster then Japan could sink them) and where Japan had no ability to invade the US to stop the production, but if England fell, and Midway had been a disaster for the US rather then Japan, and our national leadership faltered at that point, its possible that a you could have had a Germany and Japan vs US and minor allies cold war. I wonder what Russia would have done at that point (assuming it had never been invaded). Tim Tim