He was alson fully aware of the Soviet threat to the balkans and wanted to send troops to the rtegion to stop the red menace from spreading to far south
but was over ruled and had to settle for the italian campaign instead.
He was the man this country needed at the time and drew enough support from accros the board to get us in a position to kick old uncle adolf in his knackers after swaying the Americans that germany first was the way to go and not not Japan first as most of the American military wanted
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fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Tue 19 Jul 2016, 16:48,
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Biggest contributions, as I see it
Was the will to go on in 1940, the speeches, and the tireless fostering of the alliance. He's constantly sailing the Atlantic to see Roosevelt, or taking the North Cape route to Moscow, or flying to Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta for conferences. No wonder he had a couple of strokes during the war, which is never talked about.
When it came to strategy, though, he was a menace. Simple concept: maximise concentration of force against enemy. All his plans for peripheral operations in Norway and the Balkans were either romantic, or strategically foolish, or both.
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Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Tue 19 Jul 2016, 16:57,
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