Re: Back to Feudalism in the Early Middle Ages

On 9/9/2011 5:44 PM, William Black wrote:
On 10/09/11 00:21, ADR wrote:
On Sep 8, 5:32 pm, William Black<blackuse...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 09/09/11 00:55, ADR wrote:



I say that Hitler was not serious about invading England.

For a man who wasn't serious he expended an awful lot of men, machines
and equipment on the project.
Can you think of a similar endeavour he drew back from after entering
into the conflict?

Hitler did not expend many resources for the invasion of Britain. He
did post some troops with a few barges and devoted to it a number of
the Luftwaffe wings, but the whole event happened in a period of
demobilization, as you well know.

Demobilisation!

He was working up to invading the USSR.

But he was not very serious about
it. As he was not all that serious about North Africa, only sending a
minor force there and hardly ever reinforcing it despite many pleas.

Well yes, most of the Axis troops were Italians and the Germans were
there mainly as 'stiffening'.

But withdrawing Italians and replacing them with Germans was never going
to happen because of the political realities involved.

Imagine what could have been achieved if the Africa Korps was actually
a bit "beefier".

They'd have starved or run out of fuel even earlier.

The major issue in North Africa was always logistics.

The "main issue" was the British were reading the German's encrypted comm, and sinking a substantial part of the Africa Corp's supply convoys.









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