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Controversial command decisions, World War II

Thanks for your reply to the talk page at Controversial command decisions, World War II. The article is a good idea but I have to say it appears to be only half of what is needed. What it consists of now are the arguments why a decision appeared to be controversial, but there is no substantial rebuttal to the arguments. For example, in the part about Churchill and Stalin's discussion concerning a landing in the west, it mentions Churchill's odd contention that the Germans had "nine divisions" in the west. Churchill may have believed that but it is completely untrue. In 1942, there were 35 divisions in the west and this had increased to 40 by 1943 (Harrison, p. 142.) Any discussion of this possibility would have to identify the numbers of divisions and aircraft on both sides at a given date to realistically assess what the chances of military success might have been. Given the often below-average performance of Allied formations before 1943, a landing in 1942 could well have led to a decisive Allied defeat in France and perhaps even a permanent closure of the western front dictated by an armistice with the Germans. 1943 was also problematic because the Allies were still building troop strength, and even when the invasion took place in 1944, by the time the Allies got to the German border it had become clear that there were not enough infantry divisions as well as serious manpower concerns that compounded the problem. The Germans became rather famous for statements like "if the other side had only pushed hard at this moment ...", but history documents that no matter how hard the Allies (or Soviets) pushed, the Germans were always capable of providing spirited resistance. The morale and cohesion of the German forces did not notably diminish in the west until the Rhine River was crossed in March 1945 and in the east, it remained hard-bitten to the end.
I hope you intend at some point to expand the sections of the articles to bring out all of the pertinent information, because as it is now, the article is lopsided. Cheers, W. B. Wilson (talk) 07:31, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Another example - Western allies were fielding 91 full-strength divisions against 60 weak German divisions whose overall strength was roughly equal to only 26 complete divisions. -- This strength quote is picked from a point in the campaign in which the invasion force has been brought up to full strength in 1945 -- at which point a massive offensive was launched and which did not really stop until Germany was defeated. The article really needs to bring out the rest of the story in these sections, because as it is, the information brought out in it appears to selected in such a way that it supports the notion that there was a controversy of some sort, but does not provide any information that would indicate there were valid reasons for something not to happen, such as the inability of the Allies to push into Germany in late 1944 (they tried that with numerous offensives but all ground down primarily because of logistical and manpower issues.) Cheers, W. B. Wilson (talk) 07:46, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Your comments are noted. I think you really understand little about the western front, "dominant narratives" not withstanding. I just wanted to let you know that the two articles are strongly POV. W. B. Wilson (talk) 16:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Request for comment

http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment#Controversial_command_decisions.2C_World_War_II may be of interest to you. It is considered, by some at least, good manners to notify involved parties of a RfC, I can only assume that Loosmark simply forgot to notify you. Varsovian (talk) 11:49, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

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