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  1. Why were WWII Japanese Army losses so disproportionate?

    Never claimed they were saints. They weren't. Plenty of U.S. (and British, French, etc.) troops were charged with sexual assault, homicide and attempted homicide, with 10+ million troops under arms that was inevitable (what is interesting is that the number of offenses committed by U.S. troops...
  2. Why were WWII Japanese Army losses so disproportionate?

    Pretty much. Scuttlebutt is unstoppable.
  3. Why were WWII Japanese Army losses so disproportionate?

    Actually the horrors of the Bataan Death March were known in the military by early 1943 after several survivors were able to make their way out of the Islands. The same is true of the atrocities committed in Burma and Malaya, except the escapees were in India. The U.S. did not make the matter...
  4. Why were WWII Japanese Army losses so disproportionate?

    Genocidal? Really? Exactly what was the nationality of the troops on Saipan who were herding civilians, including infants in arms, off the cliffs? Or the nationality of the troops in Nanking who forced women to throw their toddlers into the air so someone could bayonet them? Or...
  5. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    It wasn't the only lethal element, but it ensured that there was no chance of overcoming the other issues.
  6. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    The Luftwaffe was designed to be primarily a ground attack force, the Ju-88, He-111, and Do-17 were all equipped to be dive bombers, with a secondary level bomber role. Famously the Me-262 was delayed because Hitler insisted that it be able to conduct ground attacks. In this application the...
  7. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    because the French didn't start to rebuild their air force in time. This was due to a combination of factors, starting with difficulties with home grown designs (the M.S. 405 prototype flew in August of 1935, at the time it was a competitive design, but it didn't enter service until mid 1938 as...
  8. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    I would agree to a point, especially that the air attacks were much more effective on the morale of the French than on the physical. Where I would disagree is that the lack of AAA was WHY the French morale was so devastated. The impression was that the Luftwaffe was unopposed, causing units to...
  9. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    As long as the French Army was commanded by men who were still stuck in the passive defense mode they had little to no hope against an aggressive and flexible enemy. Morale is a fragile thing. It is very much dependent on local and divisions/corps commanders. When senior leadership is...
  10. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    The German offensive could have been defeated. In retrospect doing so would be relatively easy, but retrospect is like that. The French would have required a aggressive field commander, with full backing, and a few month to get the troops squared away (Philippe Leclerc with de Gaulle as Corps...
  11. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    Sure it was an error, a severe one. The reality, unfortunately, is that there was very little any of sernior officer in the French Army would do that would not have been a disaster. Their focus was too narrow to overcome the scenario. Once again, I will come back to what I said initially. It...
  12. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    The French plan was far too reliant on the enemy following their playbook and lacked the sort of flexibility necessary to react to the Heer. This is, in part, due to the weakness in French communications, especially between armored units and between battalion and higher commands once the battle...
  13. The Holocaust and Zionism in a no-Fall-of-France scenario?

    The difficulty with this sort of question is that it leaves far too much up in the air for a reasonable answer. WHY did France survive? Was it a near run thing? Did the lines stabilize with Alsace/Lorraine going back to German hands? Did the Heer get its teeth kicked in? If so, how? Without...
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