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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Mr. Harris, there is a recently published [URL=https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-war-leaders-most-underestimate-duration-and-deaths-11674830698] book[/URL] out there that speculates on points in military history such as you have immediately inferred. Here are two of the scenarios addressed: 1) McClellan won the '64 election over Lincoln. He would have come to the table with the Confederacy and there would remain to this day on North American soil the USA and the CSA, which would have been "frenemies". 2) Had Hitler chosen not to invade Russia, he and Stalin would have divvied up Western Europe in whatever manner they chose. Not having to fight on two fronts, as well as each other, there would have been no way that the military assets needed to have conducted a successful Normandy invasion could have been amassed. And finally, allow me to repeat the thoughts of a History teacher in Secondary School who was wounded in the Italian campaign. The only reason, Mr. Brown held, we won is that we had more of everything. Had there been a "level playing field" where each side had the same assets as the other (football), the Germans would have "whupped us". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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