'One monkey model T-72 could probably wipe out an entire SS Panzer Division if it had magical unlimited fuel and ammunition.' 'The real icing on the cake is the air superiority that the Iraqis would have. The Wehrmacht thought 1944-45 was bad with Allied planes? They're gonna be scared shitless when they see the kind of control the Iraqis would have in the skies let alone the firepower they can bring in.'

The thread I created last thursday ( between armys ) gained more views in a shorter amount of time than any other thread on sufficientvelocity. That alone makes it a success. I do however find it very unfortunate that it has drawn so much intense emotion from commentors. I can certainly understand where Fernandel is coming from: As a german, he would have spent most of his school years being lectured on the nazis atrocitys, thus inculcating an almost pavlovian hair-trigger response in him. For Fernandel, any subject which doesn't immediately put down or marginalise them would be seen as suspicious and threatening. This is also explains Mental Omegas vitriolic response to my OP: If anything, he actually has it worse since he is half german and half russian. That means he would have been exposed to two sets of post-war propaganda. (Ouch!) Not surprisingly, Mental Omega felt so threatened by my behavior that he linked my thread to reddit in an attempt to vent his anger to a sympathetic audience.I find that wehraboo subreddit to be rather idiotic and devoid of informed commentors, their 'arguments' mostly consist of pairwise comparisons of technology. They have very little understanding of tactics and human factors, and evidence of their ignorance can be found in this post where they called IXJac a wehraboo and said that the iraqi army of 1991 would indeed beat the german army of 1944! (Because of superior techz!) There are alot of jewels here.Its amazing how they can work themselves up into such a fervor over technological disparitys (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!) while completely ignoring the disparitys in fighting power between the iraqis and germans.Anyways, its unfortunate that my thread had to get closed down, because I was having alot of fun and slowly progressing towards a conclusion. Near the end, one of the commentors asked me how I thought a war would actually go down between 1991 america and 1944 germany. The answer is, it depends. If you could simulate such a giant conflict with ultra-high fidelity, then I suspect that the germans would beat the americans 6 times out of 10. As I pointed out in this thread , random chance is a very important element of warfare. Each of the 10 simulations would be quite different from each other (with the course of war going differently each time), but with a victor emerging each time. Beyond this tentative claim, I am not confident in predicting how the war would actually progress. You and I could each make a general prediction of how the war would go, but thousands of simulations would be required before our boundary conditions were met. Thats just how probability and statistics work.