RE: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

["Steve Tyng" <STyng-at-ACPTrust.com>]

Steve Edwards wrote:

> Point being... Rommel may have been defeated, but I don't 
> think he was a "loser."

I never stated Rommel was a loser.  I said he lost.  Two different
things.

> >Germany, Italy, and Japan lost the war before the first bomb was 
> >dropped.  They didn't have the resource base needed to win.
> >
> 
> I can't accept that as a foregone conclusion.

> The US certainly had the industrial resources, and the USSR had the 
> manpower, but if we didn't have England as a staging area and the 
> Russians hadn't stopped the Germans at Stalingrad it would have been 
> hell putting the squeeze on 'em.

Even if England had been invaded (doubtful since Germany never put
together a credible marine invasion force) we would have just staged
from Africa or through Russia.  It may have taken longer but the Axis
powers would have succumbed to the Allies greater industrial and
manpower base.  An individual leader may win the battle but it's the
economies that win wars.


Steve "I love these what if games" Tyng