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Originally Posted by Max2147
I highly doubt that he would have been willing to send his army to invade Russia in 1945 when the Mao's Communists were still fighting back home.
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I said "launch an offensive from China (and Mongolia)" not "have the Chinese launch an offensive".
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We could have made the Russians fight a multi-front war in 1945, but we would have been fighting a multi-front war too. If you're fighting the same enemy on multiple fronts, the defender actually has the advantage because of internal lines. Multiple fronts is only a problem for the defender if they're being attacked by two different countries.
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You mean "interior lines"? I'd say that Russias very size and lack of transportation infrastructure would mitigate that advantage until long after enough of the country had been overrun that the wouldn't be able to produce their own fuel and food to supply their armies.
Yes, I think you have a point in general. Allied supply lines would indeed be very lengthy, but its not like they would have had to be created from scratch either. By 1945 our military transportation system was already in place. A well oiled and practiced operation that spanned the entire globe, all leading back to that huge, never before seen "Arsenal of Democracy" which was itself running at it's peak of wartime production capability.