Re: [OT] French was: [SG]Artillery

At 07:08  28/05/02 +0200, Derk wrote:
>The american entry certainly tilted the balance for good. However, the
>german final offensive ran out of steam quite on it's own already.

The outcome of the war was already decided. Germany had shot it's bolt 
so 
to speak, it's navy had been unsuccessful in challenging the British
Fleet 
and it's army and the country itself was exhausted. If you think of the 
situation in Europe as a Siege then Germany was in the castle running
out 
of supplies. The arrival of American troops in France shortened the war,

but for what ever reason the US hadn't committed troops to France then
the 
armistice would have been still been signed, but probably in 1919 not
1918.

Of course the other thing that the US troops in France can take credit
for 
is assisting in the spread of the flu pandemic.

Disease, something that dogs armies even today, take the British troops
in 
Afghanistan being quarantined after contracting a unknown virus for 
example. the more things change the more they stay the same ;)

Cheers

Derek

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