BOOK REVIEW: How did Patton die?

washingtontimes.com ^ | October 6, 2014 | Wes Vernon

[longfellow]

ok

[X-spurt]

Maybe, but their larger foolery was not in keeping closer watch on German industrial disguise that turned out to be military.

Still if one puts any credence in genes, the Germans had a long dirty history of aggression and today many Germans have a harsh superiority complex.

Who knows, if we had not had a two super power Cold War Germany may have tried again.

[NCC-1701]

I wonder how good Patton would have been in the Pacific theater. He was great fighting the type of war in Europe with all that entails. The Pacific was another beast entirely. Island hopping might not have been his cup of tea.

[oh8eleven]

In basic terms, there were too many of them, not enough of us, not to mention attitude.
Americans would not have supported another war right after one that killed 50 million worldwide.

[ealgeone]

In basic terms, there were too many of them, not enough of us, not to mention attitude. Americans would not have supported another war right after one that killed 50 million worldwide.

I agree Americans wouldn't have been thrilled with anothe war.

In terms of casualties they had incurred around 30 million compared to our 400K or so.

Once we re-deployed our forces to Europe and possibly the Middle East, combined with our production, I think we'd take'em.

Glad we don't have the history to prove it one way or the other.

[oh8eleven]

Glad we don't have the history to prove it one way or the other.
Amen.

[LS]

Well, I specifically said that the REASON the US capped its divisions was to increase productivity. I know the numbers as well as you---I've written about them extensively. Even at 3,000 men difference, you're still looking at a difference of 1.2m men. That's a helluva lot.

Naval forces are next to useless in a land war in Eurasia, as the Brits bound out in the Crimean War and as the Japanese found out in the Russo-Japanese War.

You're talking to someone who made it a point in two different books to argue that the US played a critical role in saving Russia in winter 1941-42, but that said, there was no way we were going to win a land war with Russia without nukes, which is why ALL our planning called for nukes.

[X Fretensis]

You understate the effort. It took the combine military and industrial power of the United States, the entire British Empire and the Soviet Union to defeat the German Army.