To: Norse
An examination of the destruction of the Japanese Army in Manchuria by the Russians in 1945 doesn't make it seem that the US could have gone straight to Moscow. The Germans lost about 2,000,000 military dead against the Soviets when the Soviets were unprepared. It's not at all clear that the US could have done better when Russia was on a war-footing.
46 posted on
07/11/2003 9:26:09 AM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
Another FACT about HST: he VOLUNTEERED for service and fought hard commanding a company in WW1 despite having bad eyes and a family at home. Contrast that to clinton and others.
48 posted on
07/11/2003 9:46:12 AM PDT by
laconic
To: Doctor Stochastic; Norse
An examination of the destruction of the Japanese Army in Manchuria by the Russians in 1945 doesn't make it seem that the US could have gone straight to Moscow. The Germans lost about 2,000,000 military dead against the Soviets when the Soviets were unprepared. It's not at all clear that the US could have done better when Russia was on a war-footing. I concur. The Russians (well, at least Uncle Joe) were willing to take 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%+ casualties against the Germans.
The Western way of war breaks down against that model.
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