Re: [OT] Invading America

Ryan Gill schrieb:
> At 10:42 AM +0200 5/30/02, KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de 
> wrote: 
> >
> >While we are on the subject, recently a historian 
> > checking German archives found plans drawn up for a German Invasion
of 
> > America under Kaiser Wilhelm before the first World War:
> 
> The American civil population would have made life bloody 
> hard on  them. The sheer size of the country and distances 
> involved would have  made them aghast at what it takes to get from A
to B. 
> All the while, they'd have been harrassed on all sides by a civil 
> populous bent on stopping them.

The info I've seen on the web (including some German press sites) is
not very detailed. As I understood it, the plan was mostly about
seizing key economic and political spots to be used as bargaining chips
rather than a serious invasion bent on conquering the country.

My impresssion, too, is that very few people took it seriously. More a
staff wargames exercise than a serious plan.

Which, I think, is the best use for such might-have-beens. Much better
to use them as wargames scenarios than for usually fruitless
discussions where nobody can prove what would have happened :-)

Greetings