Being in defence is in general a force multiplier, especially when the opponent is forced to move in his men piecemeal across very restricted...
I don't really think that equivalences between various forms of mass death can really be done. But more generally I don't think being willing to...
Sorry, there's some confusion here. I was talking about if the Germans had the nuke, in which case it would be possible to circumvent the issue of...
Why's it stupid? It's an infantry support tank with more armour than a tiger. It also had excellent suspension. It's not a good tank killer, but...
IS3s probably didn't serve in WWII. Neither did the Centurion. So, I guess Pershing out of those three? I guess I would consider the IS2 as...
I think he means 'about 70% of Soviet tanks that were destroyed during urban warfare in the late period of the war on the eastern front, were...
But surfacing here is just an issue of enhancing the effectiveness of the bomb. There isn't any need for the U-boat to linger on the surface. It'd...
A Polish victory could work, if it was based on a successful Polish-Soviet alliance. The Russians were conducting parallel negotiations with the...
I think there's a statistic out there that PIATs accounted for something like 7% of tanks knocked out by the British during Normandy, so they were...
Why even launch the missile? US coastal anti-submarine was awful, so it's not impossible for a German submarine to sail undetected right into New...
Actually, if anything, Hitler was temporarily frustrated at the Munich agreement, because it prevented him from having the casus belli for a full...
The Russians did in fact initially comply with the Hague Rules of Land Warfare. which references Streit, Keine Kameraden, pages 226 ff
I think, at least on some level, the real reason for D-Day's success was that the Germans were fighting a two front war, and so had the majority...
Well, I suppose so. But well, I'd take issue with people using as evidence... ... because there's quite plainly an ulterior motive here in telling...
No, that's a false moral equivalence. Allied strategic bombing was essentially based on the logic of degrading industrial production, and so...
It's not that this means the Shermans couldn't win because the German tanks were too awesome though. It was just that it would be a wasteful and...
I think a lesson of WWII is that big numbers doesn't necessarily mean better. The Germans deployed a variety of super large calibre guns, to...
