Well, without boots and food those soldiers can't march, so yeah, trucks boots and tinned spam were entirely critical to Germany losing the war. Without trucks, exactly how are the Infantry supposed to rush to the point of breakthrough those wonderful tanks create? And how are supplies supposed to get from the Soviet Union to East Germany, contrary to popular belief, Tinker bell was never in the Red Army.

Multiple fronts, attacked from china, OF COURSE! They have a quite substantial force sitting there themselves, and the West has a huge force sitting in the Pacific as well, why the hell not attack the Soviets from the east. Ok, maybe not from China, exactly, but the Pacific and India is what I was referring too.

And I never said the sacrifices of Russia were no big deal, who else would've destroyed a huge chunk (I've heard it was 80-90% of the German Army, no sources though) of the Germany Army, the West certainly would have had a hard time getting through that. And the horrendous casualties the Soviets suffered are no joke either. But that doesn't mean the war was won by the Soviets anymore then it was won by the West (Who destroyed the majority of the Luftwaffe, which could've made a major difference in the East, and took on Japan with the minor exception of the Soviet attack in Manchuria in the final stage of the war, all by themselves).

Naval dominance means something big if the Soviets overrun Western Europe, the Atlantic is quite deep. But in the context that the West is on the offensive, it doesn't mean a whole lot except in the Far East, places like Vladivostok, the whole multiple front thing. Other then that, it is negligible.

And I have no definite source for the exact number of divisions the Soviets had in Europe in 1945 (though they had a large force in Manchuria as well). But my point was those divisions lose a lot of their efficiency in the even of a war in 1945/46, becuase they now cannot replace a lot of things critical to them until Soviet industry can be re-tooled, a difficult thing to do when under bombardment (which most industry would be within range of Western bases in Japan, India, and Western Europe).

[ 31. December 2003, 04:54 AM: Message edited by: Vanguard ]

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