But Stalin didn't honor the R-M pact by invading Lithuania and Germany was in no condition to do anything. Had Stalin occupied all of Romania when...
If Britain was not bankrupt, why did Roosevelt decide to undertake the unprecedented task of convincing the American people to basically give away...
WW II was won by airplanes and the thousands of American planes were decisive in NA (as Rommel well knew and which told him that France would fall...
Actually, Britain was dependent upon the Persian oil, for it was bankrupt in 1940 and did not count on lend lease yet, so it had to pay for any...
The Allies in NA were so inefficient that they used more hydrocarbons just in that campaign (including transportation of equipment, supply, troop,...
Even invading Persia in September 1939, simultaneously with the invasion of Poland makes much more sense and produces more benefits at a lower...
Monty did nothing special, he only stopped an exhausted and undersupplied Axis force in el Alamein II thanks to hundreds of thousands of mines,...
Monty always crawled (except when he threw entire paratrooper divisions against armored divisions to capture the bridges leading to and over the...
Logistics in NA were limited only by Hitler sending Rommel too late and assigning him the lowest priority and by the fact that Malta, despite...
I think Hitler can be blamed for not recognizing that Britain was not going to sue for peace, unless it was soundly defeated. There was only one...
Balbo, Graziani, etc, repeatedly told Mussolini that without enough trucks, tanks, modern artillery, airplanes, etc, the Egyptian campaign would...
The 8 month siege of Tobruk in 1941 provided the British in Egypt invaluable time to receive huge amounts of supplies, lay lots of mines, build...
As long as Stalin continues selling oil, chromium, manganese, grain, etc, to Hitler on credit, the latter will continue advancing in France. Once...
With the resources Rommel had, he achieved wonders, thanks mostly to British incompetence. He was able to survive only because he captured a lot...
This being a forum about WW II, I´ll discuss the possibility of Stalin using his huge army to invade Persia a few weeks after Hitler invaded...
