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K181 posted...

Germany of WWII was a world class sprinter running in a marathon.

Congrats, you get off to really good starts, but whoops. You dont have the capacity for the long haul.

To be fair to the Nazis....

Boy that didn't sound right.

To be fair to the Germans. They kind of didn't have a choice.

WW1 had already shown that them that winning a war of attrition was impossible. They had to take France quickly. They had to invade Russia before Russia invaded them or just became too powerful to defeat.

It might be easy to say so in hindsight but the fact is, once the Germans lost the Battle of Britain. They lost the war. It was over at that point.

The Germans had to go fast and have dramatic quick victories. Their 2 options were "Attack aggressively and maybe win quickly" or "Don't attack aggressively and lose a war of attrition again."

Really Japan is a better example of a nation that attacked too aggressively for short-term victories with 0 long term strategic planning that bit them in the ass.

"Boy what happens if we take over half the Pacific and have no capacity to actually control it? ... Oh we just pissed everyone in the world off.... Good job fellas!"

They were literally planning to invade Australia and build prefectures in the middle of the Outback (during war)

It never happened but ask any Australian and they'll tell you how fucking idiotic that idea was.

Australia actually knew this and the official plan of the nation of if Japan invaded was "Fuck it. let them have it. We'll retreat to Brisbane and have all the water and infastructure. They can fucking have fun out there."

Japan's entire China/WW2 strategy was monumentally stupid.