Just saw Valkyrie. My Review.

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Originally Posted by Bigerik

And France, Britain and Russia. The whooped the armies of all of them. Just didn't have the sheer numbers and economic might necessary to win.

They certainly did have the numbers and economic might to defeat England by 1940?. They just screwed up. They let all those French and English troops escape from Dunkirk and they lost the air war over Britain. You could blame this on poor strategic decisions made at the top. It takes more than a bunch of Professional foot soldiers to win a war. Germany's espionage effort in Europe was sophomoric at best. The resources wasted in building V2 and to a lesser degree V1 rockets for little effect, was a further strategic blunder. And there were other big strategic mistakes made.

I believe from what I have read that the citizen soldier of the U.S. matched well against the "pros" of Germany. Our troops just got a lot of OJT and this lead to a higher initial casualty rate.