Far far too much attention is paid in WWII histories to the new weapons created by wartime scientists and not enough to the vastly altered geographic balance of power of that war viv vis WWI only 25 years earlier.
Showing posts with label neutrals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neutrals. Show all posts
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Militarily, Baltic is a two nation sea : Sweden and Germany
Today's Russia , China or America could never be dominant players in a serious Baltic Sea war - the same goes for Britain, France, Italy and Japan, even in their naval heyday.
Geographic hard power here trumps military hardware Faux Power.
Sweden's long twin coasts and many mid-Baltic islands dominate the central Baltic - Germany's two coasts much less so, but its similarly central Baltic location and bigger population make up for that.
Geographic hard power here trumps military hardware Faux Power.
Sweden's long twin coasts and many mid-Baltic islands dominate the central Baltic - Germany's two coasts much less so, but its similarly central Baltic location and bigger population make up for that.
Would WWII ever have happened without Neutrals like Sweden and Switzerland ?
If most of the countries that were allies of France and Britain in WWI hadn't remained neutral in 1939, WWII might never had begun .
But for today let us consider that those few who were neutral with regards to the Kaiser and who also remained neutral to the far far more evil Hitler twenty five years later.
But for today let us consider that those few who were neutral with regards to the Kaiser and who also remained neutral to the far far more evil Hitler twenty five years later.
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