02-25-2017, 03:23 PM
(02-25-2017, 01:17 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Other than France, none of those places you mentioned were separate countries at the time, and the analysis reflects this. Germany alone was the bulk of European industrial capacity at the time, and it stripped the rest of the Continent of resources and men in order to supply its war-machine. And yet, it still failed to reach the AA-line, or take Moscow or St. Petersburg. The USSR outproduced it in key indices (steel, oil, airplanes, tanks, etc.) before the war even began, and much of its industrial capacity had been moved over the Urals previously.
If you have a reference, I'd appreciate it.
Quote:Quoting PBS shows on "wonder weapons" reflects people's ignorance of what industrial war actually entails. Germany simply didn't have the resources to defeat the Soviet Union. Or the United States for that matter, over whom the Germans had similar operational and technological advantages.
The Germans did not have the same operational and technological advantages over the US. They might have had a slight advantage over the US in optics, but they had a large advantage over Russia, and optics was important to accuracy of, for example, tank and antitank weapons. The Americans had a radio in every tank, just like the Germans; the Russians had one per platoon or company, which had major negative implications for tactical command and control.