How on earth can you make a fair comparison between the rouble and the dollar? The Soviet economy was a centralized planned economy where it was...
Also, for starters, your German tank figure is pretty inaccurate. You seem to have intentionally left out the fact that the German figure of 103k...
Where did you get your unit costs? Did these vary during the war? Where did you get your FX rates? These certainly varied wildly during the...
His point, which he may have been a bit vague on, was that the simplicity of the Sherman and its ability to be mass produced and quickly repaired...
About 15,000 of the T-34s produced by the Soviets during World War II came before 1943. It's clearly not intellectually honest to count production...
While its anecdotal, I placed this very question to one of my history professors, a well published expert in European history (with an emphasis on...
Germany wasn't close to the bomb. The main German theorist went down a wrong avenue. Anti-Semitism also pretty much stamped out the main...
While the U.S. did provide some pretty significant supplies to the Russians in terms of lend lease, I don't think it was decisive alone. I think...
What year are we talking about here? After the Battle of Midway the USN was clearly in a dominant position over the IJN. Either way, the Japanese...
Sending a few thousand troops across something as tiny as the Black Sea against a German Navy/Air Force with little capacity for naval operations...
You don't just pull amphibious capabilities out of your rear end. You also have to consider that the Germans/Soviets had little naval experience...
Read a little history. The Soviets were a serious threat for decades before WW2. Stalin's 5 year plans and heavy industrialization in the 20s and...
The Germans lacked the amphibious capability to take Great Britain. They sure as hell lacked the amphibious capabilities to move and protect...
It would have cost hundreds of thousands if not millions of U.S./British troops to take back Eastern Europe from the Soviets. Who knows how many...
That's a joke. The Soviets were absolutely no threat to mainland Japan. They lacked the naval or air power to reach the country. If Japan wasn't...
His comparison of the number of German, U.S., and Soviet divisions tells me that he is more of a political historian with little military...
Is that why during their invasion into Georgia virtually every military expert (and even many from Russia) commented on the huge lack of GPS...
I suggest you read up on the invasion of Manchuria. The Soviets fought a 3rd rate Japanese Army that had had most of its heavy equipment and...
If no one in the area knows anything about engineering then how can the factory hire anyone? Obviously there are people out there who do. You're...
It's not that simple. Labor is one of the few controllable expenses. You don't raise or lower your prices to increase employee compensation. You...
The Chechens had no trouble decimating Russian armor with RPG-7s and RPG-18s. A 1980s TOW misisle would have wrecked Soviet era T-72s and T-80s.
No one with any ounce of intelligence or military experience ever thought Abrams were "effectively invincible against Soviet equipment." There's...
What a terrible article. There's a massive difference between "sexual assaut" and "rape." Sure it's a problem, but too many whacked out left wing...
Fair enough, I just noticed their armament included up to 2,000lbs of bombs.
I'm pretty sure P-51s can carry up to 2,000lbs of bombs. I'm not a WWII aerial combat expert though.
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