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Originally Posted by Cpl. Kalkwarf
Twilight 1946+ [/QUOTE
In Patton the movie the General says we should we rearming the germans, and getting them to help fight the russians, and give 24 hrs they be at war with the russiains and he make look like their fault!!!
I have no doubt that had he been given that order we would and then crushed the russians with a mass of superior tactics
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No offense meant, but I hope that was sarcasm
In the end the result would be the same, but it would be far from a cakewalk. At this point the russians have put together a blend of German tactical doctrine and the old school Russian swarm concepts that simply put, worked. With few exceptions the Allies had no concept of the sort of tactics would be needed to combat a (admittedly only for the first week or two) well supplied combined arms force that was by and large intact to a degree we hadn't seen since late 44. Not to mention that (again, only for the first few week) we would be operating under skies that would be owned by noone at best, and downright hostile at first.
Of course, assuming we don't go nuclear, within a couple of weeks we would have their measure and be doing serious harm to the rear areas that would cause the front line units to wither on the vine.