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the thing is: if there is a serious lull in the east, Overlord might ne re-looked especially if there is another concentration of...

February 1943: 1) Stalingrad is gone. 2) Africa is busy going 3) Italy is falling apart BUT: 1) Overlord is still not reality 2)...

It does get interesting: If we discard Himmler and the non-military SS AND Goering AND some more of the fanatic Nazi, we are sitting...

Interesting indeed. The period shortly after Stalingrad was one of consolidation (thanks to Manstein). Stalin could not have felt...

That is the thing. Any fighting will be conducted in Germany and Poland. Whichever way it is highly unlikely that the limited divisions...

Thanks for this nugget, Carl. Let us try to look at why Churchill would even commission such a study and perhaps even pushing for...

... and yet they invaded Iran together!

OK, I have to admit one thing: That part of nuclear bombs was a sarcastic side-remark - sorry. Churchill would probably not have...

Not parity at all: Allied USSR Infantry divisions...

Carl, that is an interesting aspect. Cancelling LL will of course imapct the USSR offensive capabilities, especially in trucks (I...

Only later did it get into a 'what if' USSR attacks us? But it still missed the point - why would they?

Unthinkable was Churchill's brainchild. It was a sneak attack on USSR in July 1945 Churchll also wanted to have some 200,000 former...

As I have heard the story it is really far more 'funny': Germany relied totally on importing guano from Chile. It got scraped off those...