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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (191738)	7/17/2006 2:45:07 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "As for Soviet production, they had to produce more armaments because they kept LOSING tremendous quantities of them. But the majority of trucks supplying the Soviet army were US made. ... And as you assert with regard to the US naval contribution, those hundreds of thousands of US made trucks enable Russian soldiers to arrive at the battlefield, as well as be supplied." LOL!!! You've obviously lost track of the argument. I was saying that WW2 was a "land war in Asia" for the USSR, but not for the US. Having the US send trucks to Russia is just more evidence of this. Russia's tactical experience in the war (i.e. fighting a land war in Asia) was dramatically different from the American experience. Of course we supplied the USSR with trucks. What did you think we would be supplying them with, destroyers? Cruisers? No, the Pacific War was a naval war. The Eastern front was a land war. The Western front was a combination of land war, naval war and air war. The reason for the US weakness in land wars in Asia is that Asia is very big, and the US (as well as every other country on the planet, with the possible exception of the Britain of a very long time ago) is not very well motivated at sending large numbers of soldiers to very distant lands. Sending naval stuff is a lot easier. And airplanes are easy too, provided you have enough of a technical advantage that you don't lose large numbers of them. -- Carl