Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Importance Pwnage

In view of a certain Nate Charnas' cowardly surrender, I too will be shifting my argument to match and easily overcome him in a new field of argument: that of the Heer's obvious superiority over the Kriegsmarine, as well as over the Luftwaffe, in regards to their contributions to the overall German war effort. This, too, may be an easily won victory for the land army. Just as in an all-out battle between the three the Heer has a simple victory - the air force cannot defend its bases, and the kriegsmarine starves to death in the oceans - so too the Heer is obviously the most important: without it, the Germans cannot conquer territory and they are unable to hold anything, whereas losing the air force results in a minor strategic disadvantage and losing the Kriegsmarine does nothing but allow the US to invade more easily. While the US can surely invade far more easily without the Kriegsmarine, the lack of the Heer means the Germans could not even have defeated the French.
A better argument therefore is which was comparatively better. Was the Heer notably better than other countries' armies? Was the Luftwaffe notably better than other countries' air forces? Was the Kriegsmarine notably better than other countries' sea armies? Which was the most superior? This is an argument that can be sustained, one in which I do not have the extreme and obvious advantage, and one in which the Heer will, of course, still come out completely ahead.

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