He was kept on the leash by modern institutions - bureaucracy and multinational alliance. Even modern patriotism put the brakes on him in the sense that modern soldiers fight for their nation, not their commander. King, prime minister, president, etc, the nation is now seen as distinct from them. If he had been operating in a capacity like that of a Roman consul, nothing would have stopped him from turning on the Russians like he wanted to, and the second half of the 20th century would have been very different.
A warrior-poet and philosopher king, or a war mongering gloryhound?
Yeah, we'dve lost.
You sure? In '45 we had nukes, the Ruskies didn't. Plus I'd wager our industrial capacity was significantly greater, and was pretty well protected from attack (there was an ocean between us and the fighting, and we had a large navy, the russians didn't).
Agreed.The Russians were just about at the end of the rope concerning manpower and industrial capacity. The West also had heavy long-range strategic bombers as well. Either way it would have bee very interesting to see how it would have played out.
You could make an argument that, for a few short years after WW2, American's military dominance in relation to the rest of the world was at an all time high.
And lets face it, the USSR was absolutely smashed from all those years of war. Think about it, 20 million dead, ravaged farm land and decimated industry from 2 scorched earth policies...one from the Russians while retreating East and one from the Germans while retreating West. Plus if there was a conflict that would mean no Lend-Lease, no truck, no equipment etc.
My dad knew a guy that worked under patton in ww2he said patton was a serious crazy person that enjoyed killing.
In 45 did the U.S have the capacity to deliver them onto any Russian City and how many nukes did you have?, what was the range of your bombers? Would a Nuclear attack have stopped the Reds, in that Stalin is responsible for the deaths of an obcene number of his own countrymen? I don't think our industrial capacity was any greater than the Russians, places like 'tankograd' was churning tanks out at a stupid rate. lets not forget they encircled the entire German army in Russia wiped it out then went on to capture Berlin.Obviously I'dve been happy for the allies to win if it came to that but you can't dimiss the strength of the Russians in the later stages of the war.
oh brother... the Russians had little to no airforce left... the US would have had total air superiority... the US fought Germany and Japan at the same time... the Red Army would have stood little chance if Patton & Co. would have marched towards Moscow.
complete bollox
No.... the allies fought Germany & Japan Oh brother.... do you actually learn that you weren't the only ones fighting in WWII? Arrayed against the Japanese was Britain, America, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, + All the far east countries that Japan had annexed. also the Russians wanted to joni the the war against the Japanese.If Patton & co would've marched towards Moscow exactly the same would've happened to us as what happened to the Axis forces.
and what did those allies amount to.. nothing without US help. US kept everyone in business including the Reds. US aircraft would have blown the entire Red Army and their tanks to bits and pieces.
Theif.....
Competed in the 1912 Olympics as well.
