• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    if the Allied forces had been the least bit competent

    This is honestly the first time that I’ve ever heard someone say that the Allied forces were incompetent. They did win the war after all.

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      4 months ago

      Eventually, but it took a lot of trial and error to get that far. Very few Allied commanders who started the war managed to finish it.

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        4 months ago

        100%. The British army, at the time, was good for little more than putting down colonial rebellions against vastly inferiors foes.

        Tbf to them though, at the time, no one had any reason to expect hundreds of mobile artillery fortresses, driven by methed out nazis, to appear 50 miles behind them.