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  1. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    Strategic bombing only accounted for about 160,000 of the 635,000 tons, remarkably similar bombing statistics to the Pacific theater of World War II, actually.

  2. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    We dropped 635,000 tons of bombs during the Korean War, almost as many as we dropped in the Pacific theater of World War II fighting a much more powerful enemy and in less time. So, why the different outcomes? The reason is obvious: strategy. The Chinese pushed us back to the southern part of...

  3. Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    I came to this site to start a thread saying we would've won the Korean War if Patton had been the commander. Patton would've pursued an aggressive strategy instead of parking the Army on the 38th parallel for 2 years the way Matthew Ridgeway did.

  4. Britain and France invade Germany after Germany invades Poland

    But suppose the British and French had had their forces in an offensive position along the French German border ready to invade Germany as soon as the Germans invaded Poland.

  5. Britain and France invade Germany after Germany invades Poland

    What if Britain and France had launched a full scale invasion of Germany across the French-German border after Germany invaded Poland?

  6. France fortifies Maginot Line to English Channel

    If by a sign that the French didn't trust them, you mean that they didn't trust their ability to defend their territory against a German invasion, then yeah. But, the French could've just said "Fuck it."

  7. France fortifies Maginot Line to English Channel

    What if France had fortified the Maginot line to the English Channel?

  8. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    An HC Mark 13 16 inch shell for a Mark 7 (Iowa class battleship gun) weighs 1,900 lbs and carries 153.6 lbs of explosives. A 2,000 lb MK84 bomb carries 945 lbs of explosives. A MOAB weighs 21,715 lbs and carries 8,500 kg (18,739.4 lbs) of explosives. So, obviously, you're getting much more bang...

  9. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    What did those ground forces do in Europe? Did they sit there for 2 years like they did in Korea? No, they attacked. Bombs are way more powerful than shells. And how could they be good at avoiding air bombardment, but not so good at avoiding artillery bombardment?

  10. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    OK, let's forget about the Pacific Theater and look at the European Theater. I should've mentioned this in the first place. But, I didn't think about it thoroughly. The Western Allies dropped less than 850,000 tons of bombs tactically (not counting strategic bombing) in the European Theater...

  11. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    Japan had 2,520 front line combat aircraft in January, 1942. Germany had 2,561 in December, 1941. In December, 1941, Japan had 10 carriers (2 more than we did), 10 battleships, 36 cruisers (as many as we did), 113 destroyers and 63 submarines. It had 7,200,000 people in its armed forces at the...

  12. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    OK, let's forget about the Pacific Theater and look at the European Theater. I should've mentioned this in the first place. But, I didn't think about it thoroughly. The Western Allies dropped less than 850,000 tons of bombs tactically (not counting strategic bombing) in the European Theater...

  13. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    You're right. Air power can't take land away from the enemy. That's why you need an aggressive ground strategy to go with it. We didn't have one. If we did, we would've won. Our air power wasn't barely sufficient to suppress the enemy. It was more than sufficient to defeat the enemy if we'd have...

  14. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    First of all, Russia wasn't a combatant in the war. There were Russian pilots flying North Korean planes. But, that didn't make it a combatant. China was a backward, impoverished country during the Korean War. Japan was a major combatant in World War II. It was a great power. China had a lot of...

  15. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    How many times do I have to repeat myself? 635,000 tons almost is as many as we dropped in the Pacific Theater of World War II fighting a much more powerful enemy and in less time. That should've been more than enough to defeat North Korea and China. The problem was we didn't take advantage of...

  16. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    I already have. We dropped 635,000 tons of bombs during the Korean War, almost as many as we dropped in the Pacific Theater of World War II fighting a much more powerful enemy and in less time. That should've been more than enough to defeat North Korea and China. The problem was we didn't take...

  17. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    First of all, there's no way we were going to lose. We had too much air power. Second of all, look what Patton accomplished as commander of the 7th and 3rd armies. Thirdly, the North Koreans and Chinese wouldn't have been able to use his aggression against him because of our air power.

  18. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    635,000 tons of bombs.

  19. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    That the situation didn't end with UN forces overrunning North Korea can be heavily attributed to Ridgway.

  20. Patton commander of UN forces in the Korean War

    I was using the choice of landing spot for D-Day as an example of attempting to achieve an objective with as few casualties as possible.
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