Absolutely. The US had become the #1 industrial power at the turn of the
century, IIRC. Smart Germans and Japanese knew if the Americans decided to
fight that would spell major trouble. The Russians also pulled off unbelievable
feats of industrial output, IIRC. I think it's insane for the US to divest
itself of its domestic industrial base. - Phil
On 11:34, Jeff Keller wrote:
>
>The greatest asset for war that the US had was factories located
>across several thousand miles of water from the enemies. From what
>I've heard when US tanks were in Europe a single German tank could
>destroy 4 or 5 US tanks before the 6th one got to where it could
>destroy the German tank. That was "successful" because the US could
>get another 6 tanks to Europe before the Germans could build one
>more tank.
>
>The US airforce at least at the beginning wasn't much of a match
>either. One of Japan's biggest set backs was that the US aircraft
>carriers couldn't get to Perl Harbor when they were supposed to. For
>much of the war, the allies probably didn't have the ability to do
>anything about the trains.
>
>Even now in spite of US claims about how great our tanks are, I
>think many consider the British tanks to be more better.
>
>Now that Boeing's claim to fame is that they are building the tail
>fin in the US while the rest of the "Dreamliner" is produced
>elsewhere, and most US consumer products are built elsewhere, the
>world is very different in spite of the posturing.
>
>-jeff
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