I think the Wehrmacht was one of the best armies in the history of the world. It took the combined (numerical) superiority of the Red Army (well generaled after the initial disasters) and the Western Allied military (decently led), with US material superiority, 5 years to beat it.
jks
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >P.S. Somewhere recently -- one one of these lists?
> -- I saw reference to
> >the inability of u.s. troops in europe to defeat
> the germans except
> >through overwhelming numerical superiority.
> Whenever they were in equal
> >numbers, the Germans beat them. If so, the Road to
> Hell has deep
> >origins.
>
> And then there's the argument from the economic
> historian, Gavin
> What's-His-Name, that US economic dominance was not
> the result of
> particular cleverness but of the availability of a
> broad array of
> cheap natural resources - which made us quite
> wasteful, even in the
> fat days.
>
> Doug
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