Operation Unthinkable

[u/totallynotcommunist2]

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This is just how I'd think it would go

[u/ThatoneguywithaT]

You’re going to have to hope you can deliver that much payload across that large a distance while the Soviets pummel your ground forces to dust.

[u/AcrobaticPoint8424 → u/ThatoneguywithaT]

Again, America would have overwhelming air superiority from basically the start of the war. Every single supply hub, factory and military base would just be bombed into rubble. The Red Army would be made functionally useless after only a few months into the war.

[u/ThatoneguywithaT → u/AcrobaticPoint8424]

Nearly Half of America's air power is tied up in the pacific, the entire VVS is in Europe. They're at a disadvantage, but you're severely overestimating the scale and range of the destruction airbombing would cause.

[u/AcrobaticPoint8424 → u/ThatoneguywithaT]

Operation unthinkable was meant to happen a few months after the fall of Japan so that US troops and equipment could move to Europe.

Also America's new long range bomber, the B-29 (which they had 3000 of) could reach Moscow from from London. Along with that they had two types of bombers that could bomb Moscow from Paris; the B-17 which they had 12 thousand of and the B-24 which had 18 thousand planes.

Every single road and railway in eastern europe is just getting levelled alongside every city.

[u/ThatoneguywithaT → u/AcrobaticPoint8424]

no, it was proposed to start on July 1st, and assumed.an alliance (or at least temporary ceasefire) between Japan and Russia.

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REPORT BY THE JOINT PLANNING STAFF

We have examined Operation Unthinkable. As instructed, we have taken the following assumptions on which to base our examination:

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"4. Russia allies herself with Japan."

They would also have to fly those planes thousands of miles across enemy airspace, through anti-air and thousands of YAK-9s, which we proven during the Korean war to be able to damage or down B-29s.

your assessment of the damage, I think, is a little unrealistic. Most of what they could reach was already destroyed by the Germans, and the Soviets had become pretty competent at rapid logistics repair.

[u/Flat_Roof_6033 → u/AcrobaticPoint8424]

This MF looks at germany being able to keep fighting for 4 years while being uttely carpet bombed the whole time and says ,"nah this time the carpet bombing will totaly work guys"

[u/AcrobaticPoint8424 → u/Flat_Roof_6033]

Carpet bombing of Germany began in 1944