I'm pretty retarded when it comes to war knowledge, so tell me this..
WW2 went on for 6 years...why, within those 6 years, did no one attack the capital directly? Why didn't the Brits/US/Soviets just rush from one side straight into the capital of Germany?
It's always hard for me to imagine people living normally during war. I can't imagine that during these 6 years, people in Berlin were just ok living day to day. Germany is quite small, so I don't get how it took them so long?
>>74115561
I'm guessing it's too dangerous to fall into ambushes, get flanked and/or to have supply lines cutoff.
>>74115561
Wow you're stupid
>>74115812
>>74115898
>>74115910
I know I am.
How I see it. WW2 could have ended in 12 hours or a day.
>>74115561
You're incredibly stupid. But in case I misread you, and those ellipses don't mean that you're 13 years old, you need to get to a place you want to attack. Which means you need to push back enemy lines. Which means now you are fighting a war, with a front line, and battles that take place along said front line as it shifts and moves, with the exceptions of rare breakthroughs.
>>74115898
Why wouldn't they just gather the entire allies into one spot and shoot in for the capital?
For instance..
French/American/British/Soviet Airforce all gather on one front...and shoot straight for the capital.
The German airforce and anti-air weaponry would be overwhelmed.
>>74116125
That would be suicidal to gave all your men in one spot.
>>74116062
Outnumber them with an overwhelming formation on one front while conducting a "fake war" on the other front, in order to split the troops into two.
>>74116125
This is like bad WWI-era tactics that would have failed even in their time.
>>74116125
To move armies, you need supplies. To move supplies, you need roads. If the enemy flanks your army and roads, it will fail and die horribly. To avoid the enemy flanking and killing all your men, you need to spread out your army. Now you have a frontline.
>>74116222
That's what the soviets did in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bagration.
Then their logistics train ran out.
>>74116125
Because then they'd get surrounded and cutoff. They could never stop advancing or else they would be destroyed. Eventually they would risk getting stuck somewhere for a little bit too long and that would be it.
>>74116217
How would it be suicidal if they'd overwhelm any incoming attack anyway?
>>74115561
I hope this is a troll. You fucking leaf.
>>74115561
Nations don't send their entire Army to war. They keep troops home to maintain National Security.
If the allies had tried to do that, the would have to cross open ground while being harassed by artillery, planes, infantry, and tanks. And when they finally reach Berlin after suffering heavy losses, they would then have to besiege the city.
>>74116290
>>74116301
>>74116435
I'm specifically talking about the air force.
>>74115561
i agree OP, they should have coated the B52s in invisibility paint and just drop a atomic bomb in the heart of berlin
>>74116461
Look up "elastic defense"
You can't just do a Zerg rush in real life. ( not without consequences) like others have said, it's easy to get surrounded, ambushed and cut off.
If you push in like you suggest, your path will be very narrow. All the enemy forces you rushed passed will just cut off your supply route. Then you run out of bullets, food, gas, and other necessities. Logistics is a very important aspect of war.
>>74116537
Nah man. I wish. I'm just very stupid when it comes to war.
>>74116582
The city would have fallen in an instant and thus the war would have been won. Why not just rush the goal directly in exchange of a few causalities?
>>74116461
To get your men into that formation you need infrastructure, at the same time you have the enemy killing your men, flanking your men, encircling your men, bombing your men.
>>74116461
That's eventually what happened, across a broader front, after years of warfare to establish logistics, a coherent frontline, and to prevent flanking maneuvers to cut off said advance.
Imagine a 12 step process, that produces a cake. You're asking, why don't we just put it in the oven to begin, even though you haven't mixed the ingredients.
>>74116583
Airforces during WW2 lacked the range or capability to defeat the entirety of a coherent and well armed agressor state.
>>74116682
You're not stupid, you simply lack knowledge on a complete and absolute level that is astounding. Spend a day or two reading about Alexander's campaigns, and then napoleon, then the US civil war, and then WW1 + 2 to understand anything you're talking about. You're like a toddler trying to make sense of a machine shop asking "why can't they just fix the thing".
>>74116584
>WWII
>B-52
Pick one dumbass.
>>74115561
No bully Canada.
It went on so long because nations 'tread lightly'. As in, its not like they attack pearl harbor monday. we declare war tuesday. we move troops wednesday. attack thursday. come home friday. Its a very long process. There's politics, and people saying we shouldnt get involved. Theres smartly positioning people. As for your 'why didnt we just bomb ____'. its like saying why dont we just bomb Afghanistan and the Middle East after 9/11. You cant just act on impulse to these things.
>>74116879
I feel like it was a joke, hence the "invisible paint".
>>74116461
>they'd overwhelm any incoming attack anyway?
you greatly underestimate the strength of the axis army and airforce. It took like what, 5, 6 nations?? to defeat them...If Hitler didnt poke russia they might not even have lost.
>>74116125
the enemy never sleeps and would be able to have some sort of idea as to what the enemy is up to at all times via reconnaissance. troop movements are more complex and take more time the larger the unit. an army is only as capable as its supply lines allow it to be. you can't just offroad a whole army and expect them to be extremely mobile. traffic jams even happen when moving troops. moving large concentrations of troops in such a manner as you proposed just isn't economic, and leaves the attackers more prone to a stalemate, and possible flanking/encirclement. this kills any army
Do you know about operation Market Garden? If the spearhead ever slows down, the point risks getting out of supplies and flanked.
>>74116596
I read the idea but the question is why you'd take this over a rush that'll end the war in a day or so.
>>74116668
How can you get "ambushed" when you overwhelm the other force? It's like preventing a horde of lion from attacking a gazelle or else it'll be "surrounded, ambushed and cut off" by 2 other gazelles.
What supply route? They're in planes. Just drop off the bombs and go back to your country, refuel, then come back again.
>>74116772
How so? They just start from a safe point.
>>74116789
Don't get me wrong. I know that I'm wrong, I just don't understand why.
>>74116583
Flight ranges are pretty limited, and bombers are very susceptible to anti-air weaponry without ground support
>>74117167
You clearly don't understand the concept or didn't read it carefully if this is even a question
>>74115561
Ther problem i see here is that you're not able to even imagine a defensive war and sure as hell not one of that scale
Try to listen in school or read the fucking book
There is so much you don't know that it's pointless to talk to you about that topic but to give you an answer to help
>germany is fairly Big
>you can't just run to the capital catch the flag and run back, that ain't no game drop your battlefield thoughts
>how do you live right now or have you the last years canada is in war with Afghanistan
>airplanes haven't bin baned and they have bin op as fuck
Fucking leafs don't know shit about anything
>>74117167
Even if I could restate my point in a way that you might be able to process with your meager facilities, you don't have enough knowledge to understand why you're wrong.
You need significant amounts of information to be stuffed into your head before you could even comprehend why you are wrong.
If a car was out of fuel, and you tried to explain that to a caveman, you'd be correct, but the explanation would make no sense, as the caveman couldn't even comprehend the car.
You're the same way with warfare. You can't explain why someone's understanding of calculus is wrong if they can't understand algebra in the first place. I hate this phrase:but please educate yourself using the following links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
>>74116942
That's what I don't get.
Just be done with it.
You declare war? Ok.
Day 1-2 = prepare troops
Day 4-5 = bomb capital
Day 5-7= come back home
Why are they "threading lightly"?
>>74116985
That's because it wasn't done in the way I described. I'm saying, what if they just put entire the force of the allies air force in one spot while having a "distraction war" on the other front? Push through everything and bomb Berlin. End of war.
>>74117016
They move in the air, no? If we're speaking about the airforce. Just take planes and fly away. Keep your food or whatnot in the backseat of your plane.
>>74117167
You are either retarded and/or extremely ignorant.
A) Ambushes against larger foes are extremely effective
B) You do realize the RAF and USAAF conducted round the clock bombing campaign from 1943 till the end of the war. It did jack shit against German production (in fact, German vehicle and armaments production increased). The only success of the bombing campaign was the destruction of synthetic fuel production by late 1944 which hampered movement of German mechanized units.
God damn OP is stupid.
>>74117167
You can easily get flanked. You make it seem as if you would know where every enemy unit is. As you rush forward, the enemy units that are spread out that you pass will come in from the sides and rear.
The allies did bomb Berlin, just like the Germans bombed Britich cities. The airforce cannot take and hold ground, ground forces do. It would be useless, they built bomb shelters for a reason. You would just destroy buildings, and it wouldn't be enough to make the Germans surrender.
You are also forgetting the German Luftwaffe were incredibly skilled. They could shoot down bombers and other planes, as well as anti aircraft batteries shooting at you too.
>>74117549
This is bait.
>>74117239
Anti-war weaponry would be overwhelmed as well, wouldn't it?
>>74117257
You're right.
>>74117504
"you can't just run the capital"
Why? Overwhelm any ambush or defense and you can.
The war with Afghanistan is in Afghanistan. I'm in Canada. There's no attack on Canada.
People were at war with Germany. Why not just raid Berlin and be over with?
>>74117541
Yeah, I know, but please don't use Wikipedia as a source.
Not to mention, you're just sending me a link to the entire war..I don't need to know everything, just the logistics.
>>74117843
I suggest you buy Hearts of Iron and see how your zerg rush goes
>>74116461
>>74117576
I'm both. Retarded and ignorant, because I don't get it at all.
>>74117601
Agreed. srs.
>>74117626
Why not drop an atomic bomb on Berlin then?
You make it sound like the German Luftwaffe would be able to defend itself against a full force allies' airforce attack.
>>74117641
Trust me, I wish it was but it's not. I truly am as retarded as I sound.
I imagine there's a lot of politics involved when going into war. It's not that simple to win a war by just attacking their capital.
Do you watch game of thrones? Daenerys could possibly take over westeros with her dragons, but she doesn't.
>>74118037
>>74117843
I gave you the wiki link because you DO need to read EVERYTHING. Your current conversational style betrays a complete lack of knowledge on warfare, current and past, which can only be remedied by LARGE AMOUNTS OF READING if you actually want to learn anything.
>>74118037
Dropping a bomb won't end a war. There are specific goals and criteria that have to be met. Dropping a bomb would just make it worse. Are you fuckin stupid?
The Fact you think you can prepare that many troops in 1-2 days and get across the world in a day is pretty telling.
They didn't have modern tech, they couldn't just get in a jet and be there in a few hours. Even today some 1st world countries struggle to be able to get a full brigade anywhere in the world in 48 hours.
>>74117843
As i said you are clearly not capable of thinking about a topic like this
Im sorry leafy but you're mnot smart enough for this
Let bombers fly to berlin and level it
>get shot down by AA guns
Push with tanks and infantry
>get shot at by artillery, planes and heavy mg fire even if possible to break the first defensive lines there would be an issue to get new supplies to your troops
Germany was the most dangerous country just imagine the usa with soldiers who are capable of doing theire job and highly trained
I say it again drop the topic you're to stupid for this
>>74117932
I tried to play it, I couldn't get into it. Everything was so complicated and complex.
>>74117982
You're off on what I'm suggesting though.
<-- Fixed.
>>74118257
So you want to attack the whole German border everywhere at the same time?
>>74115561
Supply lines and logistics.
Taking the entire army and making a fuck you rush to the capital would result in a disaster because an army always needs to be connected to a supply line.
Soldiers need ammunition and supplies to fight, tanks need oil and maintenance, airplanes need places to safely land. Take away all of that and your offensive push will fall flat as your fighting efficiency decreases and the enemy is able to encircle you.
Even if you somehow miraculously took Berlin in a 12 day push (which is literally impossible), taking the capital doesn't mean the war is over. The Germans had other administrative hubs, it's not like chess if you take the king out you automatically win. If the enemy is still willing and able to fight, the war isn't over.
>>74118113
Why? Is it because she's retarded?
>>74118127
I already told you I'm retarded. You think I'd get through it and understand everything?
>>74118200
If the capital is dead, the war is over, no?
>>74118252
AA guns would be shut down by the 1000000000000000000000000 planes coming in. They wouldn't even have time to get them all, let alone fire at them without being shut down.
>>74118257
Again, the soviets did this in Operation Bagration. It worked. You need to spend about 100 hours reading about basic military science.
>>74118401
If you can't read those simple ass articles and build an understanding, then we can't answer your question here either.
>>74117626
>implying Germany had not surrendered before the atomic bomb was an option.
I'm sure they would have had it been an option. Also I'm breddy sure there were more casualties in Dresden caused by conventional bombs than both jap bombs combined (someone pls verify, I may be wrong).
>>74118401
You're pathetic and iseriously hope your shithole of a country burns to ashes
>>74117843
>Anti-war weaponry would be overwhelmed as well, wouldn't it?
Not really, flak cannons were notoriously good, and so was the Luftwaffe. Remember, bombers are for offense, fighter planes are for defense. Your all of your offensive bombers would be no good against a very competent airforce and loads of flak cannons
>>74118217
How much time does it take for a commercial airplane with hundreds of passengers to get from somewhere like Paris to Berlin? Why would it take much time for war planes?
>>74118341
Yeah, while conducting a "distraction" war on the other front so that their men are split in two, makes it much easier.
>>74118381
What supply line is connected to airplanes? Just drop the bombs contained in the airplanes and return to your base.
Hitler and the whole NSDAP would be dead. Why would they keep fighting?
>>74117167
An army of 200 can beat an army of 3000 because of homeland. they could lay a single bomb that you would sent your 500 men into and they would die.
If your men are surrounded there is no cover they die.
Manpower doesnt surpass tactics and strategy.
>>74118489
I was right about to say this. The Germans surrendered in may, the atomic bomb was ready for testing in July according to the web page I went to.
>>74115561
Lets say that, if the Allies manage to take Berlin, Germany surrenders. This is in reality a ridiculous proposition, Germany had many important cities and Hitler and his top leaders could simply have escaped somewhere else. They died or were captured in Berlin because by then everything else had fallen. So, assuming they unconditionally surrender if Berlin falls, lets take your proposal of just rushing for it and seeing what happens:
Men can't just kill it each other, they need tools to do it efficiently in a war. By this point in time, these tools were rifles, by now semi automatic, some automatic guns, rockets, tanks, airplanes, etc. Germany is big and strong, you are going to need all these things to beat them. Soldiers need uniforms, helmets, crude armor, food, medicine, etc. Supplies need fuel, ammunition, and maintenance. If you are going to rush for the capital, you need to find a way to get supplies to your troops so they always have what they need. Invading Germany by Sea would mean needing a port. The port that would be best suited for rushing to Berlin would be Hamburg. Land a massive army of US, UK, and remnants of the other Allied Armies there, capture the city, and just rush for Berlin from there, sending supplies to Hamburg. You would have to keep your navy busy protecting these supplies, and Britain, so good luck with that. Your forces would have to fight the best of the German Army getting to Berlin, and let us assume then that they just don't get tired. Well, at this point, all the Nazis have to do is retake Hamburg while you run around rushing to Berlin, and they cut off your supplies. Then they wait until you are out of ammo and your forces begin to starve. Congratulations, they wiped out your entire army. Especially because a battle for Berlin would be so long cutting off supplies at any point would be devastating. The only way to do it is by spreading out your forces, having many ports, many roads, many ways to keep your men ready.
>>74118448
Ok, well it worked. Why didn't they do it earlier?
>>74118493
I feel the same way (srs). Sorry for making you read things that are so pathetic, I truly wish I was joking right now but I'm legit retarded.
>>74118533
You really think the Luftwaffe would be able to hold off the ENTIRE allies' airforce power concentrated into one point?
A fucking bait thread has more than 60 replies, while political discussion usually has less than 20, this is really /b/ 2.0 now.
>>74118648
They bombed Berlin before, the leaders just went underground like everyone else. It doesn't work, and they can't use the atom bomb because it wasn't ready before the Germans surrendered in may.
>>74118713
Well, what about combining manpower + strategy? Put the entire airforce against them with a competent strategy and it's goodbye Berlin.
>>74118777
Forget the on-foot soldiers. It would all be planes. That way, there's no "supplies" and no "routes" or whatever would usually hold back the on-foot soldiers.
Just raid everything. Destroy the capital. Saturate it with bombs everywhere with the planes.
>>74116461
have you seen the movie 300? the spartans actually had the upper hand because their enemy was only attacking them from one side. yes, the spartans lost in the end, as would the nazis in this given situation, but the offense would take many more casualties.
>>74118812
>why didn't they do it earlier
See the part where you need to read about history. People have written thesis on less ambitious topics.
You are like a child who needs to go to school.
>>74118930
The 3 reasons my retarded brain could understand up until now is this..
1. Leaders would just hide underground
2. Leaders could just escape cities
3. Killing off the capital doesn't win the war
>>74118996
How will the planes reach Berlin? They need to go through hundreds of miles of German territory with plenty anti air and the Luftwaffe.
>>74119020
I didn't see 300 but what if it was a stealth raid?
>>74119055
I completely agree.
>>74118847
>>74119149
Define your "stealth raid".
>>74119149
Hence you should read the wikipedia articles from before.
>>74119149
>stealth raid
and by that you mean...?
>>74119120
Overwhelm them.
>>74118648
Airplanes need cover from AA fire and other airplanes.
If you send a shitload of bombers at a city and it's AA defenses are still intact you will lose a lot of airplanes and the cost/reward ratio will be fucked.
Airplanes also need airbases that are not under threat. Your master strategy of bumrushing the capital is retarded because what stops the enemy from going around your massed army and fucking over your strategic locations? Factories, airbases, administrative centers, oil fields, ore mines, all of this would be fucked in favor of a retarded coin toss attack that will cost many lives and probably result in literally no territorial gain.
>>74119257
>>74119309
>>74119323
Gather the entire air force in one point but tell absolutely no one about the plan. Just individually gather them as units, then instruct them to attack Berlin.
Like that, no information would be leaked and Germany wouldn't have seen it coming at all and even if they did with their radars or whatever, it would have been too late.
>>74119343
it would be more like
>allie's entire air force vs. nazi anti-aircraft
>>74119343
So the Allies lose their entire air-force but they bombed Berlin which has caused a lot of damage and civilian deaths. The German troops are at the borders and since the Allies don't have an air force anymore the Wehrmacht together with the Luftwaffe wins.
Good job on bombing Berlin.
>>74115561
Basically put, armies couldn't do this because they would run out of supplies too quickly, the enemy armies would get in their way, and moving too quickly into enemy territory give you a huge tactical disadvantage as the enemy can attack you from literally every angle, in a war were small tactical advantages won entire battles. You couldn't get to the capital quickly enough before the nearest enemy army scrambled and decimated you with bombs, artillery, men and armour. Also the enemy could go guerrila and destroy yor entire army without taking a scratch.
Also you couldn't just bomb the enemy capital because they have anti air weapons and they defend strategically important sites.
>>74119343
Where are you going to store all those planes? You can't possibly keep them at one airfield.
Also, to overwhelm them you would need to get them all in the air at the same time. Only a few planes can take off at once. That means you would have planes circling in the air waiting for the other planes to launch, wasting fuel. Wasting fuel means they can't reach their target.
>>74119343
Bombing your enemies capital doesn't win you the war.
>>74118812
>You really think the Luftwaffe would be able to hold off the ENTIRE allies' airforce power concentrated into one point?
Yes, especially supported by flak cannons.
Firstly, a large attack of ALL of the allies forces would have been well known by the Germans ahead of time, due to a large contingent of spies and whatnot. This is a good reason as to why wars are fought with much smaller operations instead of just large battles with a bunch of forces, the element of surprise would be nonexistent against a nation with a large intelligence contingent.
Secondly, the allies wouldn't be able to launch all of their air forces at once. It takes a great amount of time to launch planes, whether by sea or land. Because of this, all of the planes would be traveling to the destination via waves, which would be MUCH easier to take down with fighter planes and flak cannons as opposed to smaller, more discrete bombing operations.
Thirdly, if all of their forces attacked Berlin and they somehow impossibly DID destroy everything, it would be a pyrrhic victory at best. Many, many allied men would die due to the previously mentioned air force and flak cannons, along with tons of wasted resources and planes. On top of that, the central command for Germany would definitely be able to escape the sieged Berlin and establish command elsewhere. This is why wars are one by taking non-capital cities with smaller pushes first, it is really dumb to do zerg rushes
>>74119485
i'm not quite understanding your logic. Just bombing Berlin doesn't win you the war. Berlin was bombed plenty of times between 1940 and 1945.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Berlin_in_World_War_II
>>74119485
They did that, they were called night bombings.
And they were ineffective because, surprise surprise, you can't aim a bomber's payload for shit during the night.
>it would have been too late
Cities were relentlessly drilled in air raid defense. Every man woman and child was expected to know their place in a minute's notice as soon as air raid sirens went off.
>>74119094
kys
Seriously. If you're not trolling, sterilize yourself to eliminate the risk of your genes being passed on. For the greater good of humanity please.
>>74115561
Well that would happen today and that's how we fight today but back then the plane was just invented. Tech is your answer to your question
People like OP are becoming way too common.
The lack of critical thinking here makes me want to kill myself.
>>74119382
You're right but that's assuming that the required amount of force would leave the countries defenseless.
BUT!
Do you really think Germany would go hit other countries while his country is facing the entire airforce?
What country would Germany attack anyway? The most logical idea would be retreat all the forces and put them into your country to defend yourself.
>>74119535
Nazi Anti-Aircraft wouldn't be able to defend itself against the entire allies airforce.
The Luftwaffe would have to retreat to defend Berlin. And even if the Luftwaffe doesn't do that, the AA from the other countries will take care of it.
>>74119620
You guys are implying that the anti air weapons would be enough to stop the entire airforce.
>>74119683
Why do only a few planes can take off at once? You'd have planes at every level.
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>>74120575
Pic for last comment.
>>74120575
>You guys are implying that the anti air weapons would be enough to stop the entire airforce.
Well if they're so bunched up, Several Flak 88 guns (Which have large shells that can shoot shrapnel) can possibly damage several planes in one shot, and Its not only AA guns, but AIrplanes too
>>74120605
Man, that would be any flak cannon operator's dream
>>74119722
>>74119777
Good first point.
For the second point: that's why you overwhelm them with numbers.
Good third point.
>>74119808
Yeah, I get that now.
>>74119921
Hmm...good point but why did so many die in Dresden?
>>74119926
That's not nice man. I know I'm very stupid when it comes to war, but I don't think I should commit suicide or kill myself. I'm a voluntary working at senior homes, doing what I can do make them happy.
>>74120474
I don't think it's a lack of critical thinking per se, I'm just very ignorant about war. I really know nothing about it. I'm sure you'd have difficulties understanding nursing if I tried to teach you.
>>74116014
Pushing through enemy lines with tanks was a new tactic, and it was implemented by the Germans. The allies were shit at war to be quite Frank and honest as well, fäm.
>>74120605
What I'm saying is how are they going to all take off at the same time? They can't. It's too many planes and you couldn't possible get them into the air at the same time.
Once this happens, they go in waves towards their target and are easily defeated or they loiter in the air and waste fuel.
>>74120774
>>74120862
Hmm.
If Flak cannons are as strong as you're implying they are, you're right, that strategy would fail.
But I have a hard time imagining the Flak cannons not getting shutdown.
I mean...once one missile goes off, the planes on the lower levels target it or vice versa.
It's not like they have 100000000 Flak cannons, not to mention they need to reload.
>>74121085
Why would it be hard to get them into the air at the same time?
One goes off after the other, those in front slow down so that those in the back catch up a bit and eventually create an entire air of planes.
They could put 200 plane stations and one goes off after the other.
>>74119722
This. The whole time Germany was bombing London we were kicking them to death in North Africa. As long as an army can fight it doesn't matter how many houses in the capital you destroy.
>>74121170
Flack guns don't shoot missiles. They shoot a shell that flies in the air and explodes causing shrapnel to damage or destroy everything within a certain radius of the play. All you would see from the air, if anything at all would be a muzzle flash. Also, bombers fly up so high they couldn't see the guns on the ground.
>>74121003
Dresden was devastated because it was not equipped for war.
Dresden was a historical and cultural hub and of little strategic significance. No major railways, no industrial strength, no major military bases. The Germans did not outfit Dresden with much defenses because they didn't anticipate the Allies would be barbaric enough to unleash a hellstorm upon such a harmless city.
>>74121170
>Shutting down enemies defensive AA with planes
That will end well.
>>74121003
Then keep doing that and help those people, but don't have kids. It's probably better that way.
Why are Canadians so fucking stupid?
>>74121170
First of all, let me address something.
>I don't think it's a lack of critical thinking per se, I'm just very ignorant about war. I really know nothing about it. I'm sure you'd have difficulties understanding nursing if I tried to teach you.
So what you're saying is, instead of watching some sort of documentary, or googling it, you come to a politics board to explain it to you
>>>/k/
But now for this comment.
>But I have a hard time imagining the Flak cannons not getting shutdown.
As in getting Bombed? Sure a few would get hit, but I'm pretty certain that the German Air Force would be able to supplement the loss of AA guns
>I mean...once one missile goes off, the planes on the lower levels target it or vice versa.
Then they're vulnerable to fire from Other aircraft or other AA Guns
>It's not like they have 100000000 Flak cannons, not to mention they need to reload.
The Flak 88 is pretty easily reloaded, it ejects the spent cartridge, you push a new one in, and pull the line or the trigger.
The Flakviering on the other hand, would most likely get a steady supply of smaller bullets.
Also, If Planes are bunched up, imagine shooting at a bunch of Animals that are all together tightly, You're BOUND to hit one.
>>74121274
Apart from being logistically impossible, there's no way you could store that many planes from that many nations without the enemy finding out.
>>74121170
Bombers can't really 'target' weaponry like that, especially ones designed to take cities. Flak cannons are pretty small targets, and they were spread out so much that it would be impossible to take them out with bombs that were pretty much designed to haphazardly lay waste to cities..
German flak cannons were probably one of the best weapons in WWII by far. They could shoot 20 times in a minute, which is one shot every three seconds, were relatively while still being extremely useful which made them cost-effective, and they were so good they were even used against tanks. Reading some wikipedia articles on the German flak cannons would shed more light on how good they were
>>74121387
Hence why those on the lower ground would shoot down the flack guns.
>>74121395
Hm.
>>74121400
That's not nice man.
I'm a nurse, I'm not a war tactician or some historian.
Because that would be fucking stupid. You don't just win a war by taking a city. You rush your whole force in to take their capital. Cool. Now the army you didn't bother to fight have surrounded you, cut off your supplies, and just have to wait for you to starve.
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>>74115561
If only the allies had one of these bad boys!
>>74121576
I'm hoping you can get through to him as to why it's logistically impossible. I've been trying, but this shit ain't easy.
>>74121399
>>74121575
>>74121576
>>74121599
Ok, now I understand.
/pol/ is so shit when americans are awake
you people are literally nigger children teir retarded
>>74117549
You actually think that it would take 2 days to prepare forces. You do realize that if it were that easy then China would have just taken over the world.
>>74121821
Enigma
>>74120575
Well first, after your bumrush attack inevitably grinds to a halt and gets surrounded, the Germans would already be initiating counter attacks that are poised to take your own cities.
And even if you somehow manage to get your entire airforce in the air at the same time (which is a logistic impossibility), keeping a continuous assault on a city like you are suggesting won't work because bombers need to go back to replenish their payload and fighters have limited range. Sending bombers in small waves would fix this, but that defeats the whole purpose of your "overwhelming" attack.
Furthermore, finding places to land tens of thousands of planes that are within striking distance of Berlin will be a logistic nightmare. Planes would get blown up at airfields within enemy territory, and friendly airfields would be swamped by planes trying to land and take off, which will most certainly result in runway accidents or pilots having to bail out of their aircraft after running out of fuel circling the damn strip waiting for an opportunity to land.
>>74122142
This.
>>74121940
Oh okay, I see what's going on here.
Guys, as a Canadian, I'm sorry you had to suffer reading OP's post. It's mental cancer for sure. Let me assure you, the average Canadian is slightly better than OP... Slightly.
>>74122482
Shut the fuck up, cuck.
>>74118401
>If the capital is dead, the war is over
In the case of Japan, they had already lost and were holding out for a better peace treaty.
If we nuked the capital of a country that wasn't defeated, you'd just get prisoner executions and enemy soldiers that have no fear of death.
>>74122482
>>74122745
These fucking leaves man.
>>74115561
>Why didn't the Brits/US/Soviets just rush from one side straight into the capital of Germany?
there was this thing called the german army
you fucking retard
no seriously, you're fucking retarded
you are so fucking stupid you should be ashamed of yourself
take a look in the mirror
repeat these lines
there is nothing good about me or what i do
repeat them you cunt
now you know how everyone, including your worthless fuck up family, thinks about you
everyone
every. fucking. body.
you worthless faggot
a fucking leaf
>>74122826
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>>74122902
>>74115561
Really a good question. The German front, meaning the German army, was spread out thru Europe and Russia. Supposedly if you defeat the enemies army, you defeat the enemy. The allies had to move thru the outlying countries containing German troops to get to Germany. Germany was bombed, though.
This probably contributed to the German military defeat. It was spread out too thin.
There is an argument about the island hopping in the pacific instead of invading Japan directly.
>>74115561
When you consider the technology they had at that time they did pretty well.
We did try and strike the heart of the enemy. Look at the Allied bombing campaigns targeted toward Germany and Japan. Look up Doolittle's Raid.
Oh shit why didn't they think of this!
>OH SHIT WAR IS TAKING VERY LONG
>WHY DON'T WE RUSH BERLIN CYKA IDIOTS
>>74115561
Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich was well secured. In order to defeat an enemy force thoroughly, you must push them back to where they came.
>>74118257
>>74118648
Good job, you're a Soviet general now
>>74122745
Says the nurse. Fuck off, you brain damaged sack of shit.
>>74116461
oh god my sides!
>>74115561
Okay idiot team! Rush B with P90 no stahp!
>>74115561
>I'm pretty retarded when it comes to war knowledge
That is obvious
>why did no one attack the capital
Let's see... In the west Germany pushed the allies all the way to the Atlantic and fortified the north coast of france, and the channel islands. America wasn't in the war yet and it wasn't until 1944 when a combined British-american assault (including forces from the entire british empire) landed in Normandy.
In the east the Germans almost toppled Russia. Nevermind Berlin, axis troops made it to within 20 miles of Moscow. Germans were over 1000 miles deep into enemy territory. To get to Berlin the USSR had to fight them back on a front hundreds of miles wide against a for they regularly suffered triple casualties against.
>Germany is small
Hundreds of miles is not small when every step is paid for in blood.
Berlin was bombed, a lot. But getting an invasion force there took 6 years.
>>74116435
What if they used bombers to drop supplies on their troops :-)
>>74123008
>haha, I was pretending to be retarded
>>74115561
>Canadian Intellectuals
>>74115561
>WW2 went on for 6 years...why, within those 6 years, did no one attack the capital directly? Why didn't the Brits/US/Soviets just rush from one side straight into the capital of Germany?
War isn't a game of civ 5 where taking the capital means the war is over. Say the americans dropped loads of paratroopers into berlin, then what? they're surrounded on all sides by german land with no supplies and would be annihilated in a day or two.
>"hey germany, we took your reichstag lmao"
>okay america, i guess our millions of troops will stand down and we'll sign a peace agreement right now :'(
not going to happen
I don't know how I missed this thread
I'm going to be nice and answer it for you.
Basically supply lines and logistics.
The further stretched your supply lines are the more vulnerable they become to flanking attacks.
Also at some point you end using more gas then you are bringing up. This usually happens at the 300 mile mark. It then becomes necessary to capture a port and establish new supply lines or stop your advance in order to resupply. Look up the Red Ball Express. This also happened in 2003 in Iraq.
