USA vs. USSR in 1945

Originally posted by Sarmat12 I also want to add again. On these "mighty bombings"   It was already repeated several time in this thread that you can't win the war by bombings.   A good example is Vietnam which was hit with more bombes than were used during the whole WWII, yet American were unable to crush this tiny peice of land.   Now, look at the map and compare Vietnamese territory and the Soviet land mass. It says it all...

Well were the Vietnamese manufacturing their own weapons in Vietnam? I thought they got a lot of their weapons from China and Russia. Heavy bombings of Russian industry, would have decreased output of tanks. Thus leading a reduction in war materials. I'm sure the US would win but it also depends on when they would have invaded. The Russian winter is a huge obstacle for any armies trying to invade Russia.

Originally posted by Tyranos Originally posted by Sarmat12 Originally posted by Justinian ^^ The US had many former german scientists like Einstein that fled Nazi germany; the US was arguably far ahead of all the other allied powers, including USSR, in regards to technology.  Nuclear technology especially.   Wrong. USSR for example got most of the Nazis rocket equpment as well as many scientists in the field. Why do you think USSR was able to become the first in the exploration of space?  I don't find that a deciding factor really, the Soviets had to reverse engineer Allied war planes( B-29 bombers)just to keep up, we couldve bombed Moscow and their Industrial zones into oblivion while launching a massive ground assault . The Soviets were also pretty badly beat up, they lost over 1 million men taking Berlin alone.

I think this debate would be helped a lot if we were able to look at some numbers.  Population of opposing countries, size of current army, navy, airforce including numbers of tanks, aircraft etc.  Location of current armies and other military personnel.  Industrial capacity, war potential.