This Week's Evil Islam Thread

[Sarmatian]

Yeah, WWII is not the best example, since something like 85% of the Wehrmacht was deployed fighting the non-democratic USSR on the Eastern Front. Although I read somewhere else around 70% of the German war effort more generally (as opposed to manpower) was for the Western Front.

Depends how you define "war effort". Luftwaffe was present more on the eastern front in the beginning, later more on the western and practically entire Kriegsmarine was on the western front all the time. Western front as in fighting the western allies. Even knowing that, most of the German war effort supported fight in the east so I really don't think 70% was used to fight western allies.

I take this as support for my position...

Except for the first one, the american revolutionaries certainly did not have a bigger production capability or more money than the British Empire.

Sorry, I just glanced before replying and thought you meant ACW, not American revolution. Yeah, you're right, but in that case there were many other factors at play (French intervention, war weariness in Britain etc...)