I never argued that we had the political WILL, I said many times. I only argue we had the ABILITY. And I argue Patton knew better than YOU what our cababilites were at that time!
No we did not have the ability as others have shown on this thread using facts and figures which describe the force arrangements within Europe. USSR tank production was equal to ours at the end and they were better tanks and all in Europe.
How could we have done what the Nazis were incapable of doing when we had fewer men and would have had to drive through the Soviets all the way back to Moscow? It took almost a year for us to drive the Germans back into Germany and they only used 1,370,000 men in France. There were almost three times that many Germans going against the USSR which used 5.5 million against them.
Patton was wrong. And I love the guy. But even he could not conjure up military forces out of nowhere. Remember when he said it was only important that HE know when he was to be taken seriously? This was one of those times.