Re: Apocalypse Pretty Soon

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 14:29:46 MDT


Michael Wiik wrote:
>
> Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> wrote:
> > Hitler thought he could win WWII, yet analyses of the logistics of any
> > one of the three ally countries shows that each of them could have
> > beaten Germany on their own with enough time.
>
> Surely there were more than three allied countries in WWII. I can
> understand that Russia or the U.S. could have beaten nazi germany on its
> own given sufficient time, but presuming the 3rd ally is Britain, I
> would think that would be much more iffy.

Iffy, but given both sides with similar fire in the guts, the numbers
say they would have eventually won. It would have taken another decade,
and not much would be left of either side, but it would be possible on
the numbers.



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