[Centurion2000]

The Red Army was pretty tough in WWII. I don't see why he'd want to.

Collectively it was ... individually they weren't. Kinda like the Sherman tank versus a Panzer IV. We won the tank battles because we swarmed them.

[JohnCliftn]

Dictators would be hillaryously funny if they did not have the power to cause so much grief.

• Stalin and his Lysenkoism and cross breeding apes is such a silly view of biology
• Hitler and all his screwy notions
• Mussolini's ridiculing of Roosevelt's handicap: sure sign America was a nation of weaklings. This is recorded in Churchill's History of WWII.
• Kaiser Willy II's "scientific" fiats, when he was in one of his manic depressive swings

This is why I think it is bad that more and more research in the USA is government funded. A whole agency can go nuts (like EPA), specify the results of research before the experiments ever start (like EPA), and get results (based on bad science) enacted into laws and regs. that cause a awful lot of grief. NSF is funding global warming studies and SURPRISE! they're getting global warming results the NSF likes.

Armies work together. The "Army Of One" slogan was an abomination. Consider, Ghurkas, Finest Infantry in the World according to people who ought to be competent judges, yet individually Ghurkas are little guys. Your example of the Shermans was excellent on this poiint. I think I read somewhere that the preferred way of dealing with Panzers was to drop 200 pound artillery shells on them. Maybe that was just the British army that my dimly remembered source was writing about..