True enough, though Napoleon's idea was a joke. Foraging to sustain an army? really? i know it was the norm at the time but still..SkarKrow said:Yeah pretty much, that and the whole mutually assured destruction thing being a pretty big issue.Spade Lead said:I actually wonder how much of that history was an important reason that we never kicked off World War Three pre-Soviet collapse. Shit, we had no way to beach-head into Russia, unless you count Kamchatka, and who the FUCK would be stupid enough to invade SIBERIA at any time of year? Even if you were successful, the winter would tear you up before the end of the first year. If you invaded in the spring, you would maybe get four good months of offensive, and then Russian winters would kick in and send you packing like every other invader since the Khanate left. (I took Russian History in my last College semester.)SkarKrow said:China would have to somehow deal with the Russians at some point, history teaches us that this is incredibly difficult and like pissing into the wind. More of you? Better equipped? Actually EQUIPPED? The russians don't care. They'll just burn everything and salt the ground out of spite.
If I recally the primary reason for failure of invading forces is that they push too far and find the winter blocking off their supply chains, it happened to Napoleon and it happened to Hitler, they became fixated on the fall of Moscow, pushed too far too fast, and found themselves unable to feed their army or keep their army alive long enough in the cold to even fight.
I don't even think it was that with USSR, sometimes i feel as though they didn't push fast enough. Stalin was about ready to capitulate, i think sometimes that if there wasn't a western front the Fall of Russia might of actually happened. The 30-100 odd Divisions deployed to the western front could of made the difference, they really only needed to crawl a little bit further though who knows what would of happened after that. Moving the Russian industry literally by train to the Ural's was about the only sensible thing that happened in the early stages. Anyway, all speculation. Germany also focused on the wrong things, its Economy industry wasn't up to the task and they kept producing Tigers and King tigers when they should of been producing even more Panzer IV Ausf H's and Panthers. Don't even get me started on the burnt out shell that was Luftwaffe after the Battle of Britain. Anyway, rambling.