[justshutupandtakeit]

Clueless ideological aspersions do not improve your lack of geopolitical understanding much less vastly increase American force deployment in 1945. There simply was no army of sufficient size to do anything about the Soviets in Europe in 1945. Patton's speculations included him CAUSING a vast increase in our forces. Soviet armies were at least 3 million strong and they had no compunction about TAKING any supplies they might need to fight us.

[CWOJackson]

One of the things Patton got in trouble for was failing to totally disarm captured German units. They were being detained, unarmed, but their weapons were kept close. His theory was to use them as reinforcement as necessary.

There's a very interesting book called "The War Between The Generals" which is very enlightening; it relies heavily on personal dairies and such.

[spanalot]

"Clueless ideological aspersions do not improve your lack of geopolitical understanding much less vastly increase American force deployment in 1945. There simply was no army of sufficient size to do anything about the Soviets in Europe in 1945. Patton's speculations included him CAUSING a vast increase in our forces. Soviet armies were at least 3 million strong and they had no compunction about TAKING any supplies they might need to fight us."

You are daft - Patton was ordered to stand down to allow the Soviets to reach Berlin first. The US forces were well suppplied and it was the Soviets that were stretced thin.

Plus we had the monopoly on the bomb.

It would have been a lot easier than suffering all the BS with Korea, SE Asia, Berlin, etc.