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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Lets look at this from another angle.
Could the US have won without the Commonwealth. My money is firmly on "not a chance in hell".
Also, could Germany have won if a) they didn't have to bail out Italy in Africa, and/or b) they left the USSR alone for another year?
What if Spain had joined in on the side of the Axis?
What if Japan had coordinated their submarine war with Germany?
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I don't believe that the U.S. or the Commonwealth could have the war without each other's support.
Could Germany have won the war if they hadn't had to intervene in Africa? Tough to call, since Africa would later prove to be essential for air and sea bases as well as a logistical base for later operations in Italy and Southern Europe. Without invading Russia, the Germans should have been to send in additional troops and support making the British operations much more difficult...hmmm how would Eighth Army performed against one of the first line field marshals?
I doubt that Spain would have able to enter the war as Franco was still rebuilding after the civil war, if he did enter the war, Gibraltar would have been besieged and almost certainly taken, sealing the Mediterranean at one end and making it far more likely that Malta would have been invaded.
Japan's submarine offensive would be harder to pull off, IJN doctrine had its subs primary mission as anti-warship, would they have modified their doctrine?