True - however, if Europe belonged to Germany, as well as Africa falling heavily under the Sway of Germany (due to Rommells Afrika Korps), and Asia split between the Germans (much of Russia) , and Japan (the rest of Russia, and the rest of Asia-Proper), North America I feel would be relatively Isolated, and economicly dominated by the German-Japanese alliance (with South America as as a Economic Battleground). Of course the Germany-Japan alliance would not hold (I am thinking similar to the Sino-Soviet alliance of the fiftys and sixtys, that looked much more solid to the West than it really was).
I think the war could have gone very differently, depending on a few small key events.
There was a Army Airforce guy (I can not recall his name to save my life), who advocated flying long range patrols around Hawaii with B-17's - his ideas were shot down. He though Japan was getting pretty frisky, and almost predicted the Pearl Harbor disaster. But, Americas a nation of Cowboys. We do not like to swing first, we would rather that the other guy swings, and we punch back, and when the bad guy is out of ammo, we throw down our pistol and finish the fight fairly. We do not like to make the first strike - if we had wrecked the Japanese attack force before they had the chance to really draw first blood, then I do not believe we would have won against Japan (and that would have limited our ability to wreck Germany - and I honestly believe that if it was not for the Dieppe landing teaching us a little about European Amphibious Assault, and later the Normandy landings, then Russia would have come to a Seperate Peace with Germany, allowing Germany to shift forces to counter the wester-front allies while Russia rebuilt and then when the Western Front allies were smashed, turn the military back on Russia).
I think the war could have gone very differently, depending on a few small key events.
There was a Army Airforce guy (I can not recall his name to save my life), who advocated flying long range patrols around Hawaii with B-17's - his ideas were shot down. He though Japan was getting pretty frisky, and almost predicted the Pearl Harbor disaster. But, Americas a nation of Cowboys. We do not like to swing first, we would rather that the other guy swings, and we punch back, and when the bad guy is out of ammo, we throw down our pistol and finish the fight fairly. We do not like to make the first strike - if we had wrecked the Japanese attack force before they had the chance to really draw first blood, then I do not believe we would have won against Japan (and that would have limited our ability to wreck Germany - and I honestly believe that if it was not for the Dieppe landing teaching us a little about European Amphibious Assault, and later the Normandy landings, then Russia would have come to a Seperate Peace with Germany, allowing Germany to shift forces to counter the wester-front allies while Russia rebuilt and then when the Western Front allies were smashed, turn the military back on Russia).
Ah . . . . all the What-If's . . . .
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