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Originally Posted by Letum
America struggled in Korea and 'nam, let alone Russia and China.
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1. We managed to conduct far more extensive war efforts in both the ETO and PTO at the same time and in 1945 still had the armies already in place to continue doing it. Korea was post demobilization. This hypothetical Soviet/NATO was would not have been.
2. We wouldn't be fighting in China. In 1945 they were our staunch allies whose nation we had just liberated from the Japanese.
3. I don't think actually marching on Moscow would be necessary to beat the Russians. It's significance is more psychological than military.
Again, this hypothetical war between the USSR and NATO assumes there was sufficient reason for it in the first place. Motivation and commitment are a given.
Oh and I know who Monty was and I know you Brits revere him as your savior but from this side of the pond he wasn't nearly all that... Caan, the Schelde Estuary, Market-Garden. Really, other than El Alamein his track record as a General just ain't that good as to take his words as gospel. Especially about China, a theater he had no experience in.