The answer to your question comes from answering what the U.S. tries to do other then Torch. Invade Norway? Try to invade Sicily while North Africa is still contested? Some variant of Operation Sledgehammer? More forces to the Pacific?
Without the U.S. and Britain working in tandem in North Africa the DAK and Italians can hold out longer then many assume.
Without the U.S. and Britain working in tandem in North Africa the DAK and Italians can hold out longer then many assume.