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I think people have too rosy views of war changing inventions made by individuals and clever strategies etc - it's in large part just a question of resources. If you for example put enough money into researching jet engines (if we assume you have enough of the right experts, if you have an educated society), you get jet engines in a certain time frame. There's some element of randomness perhaps, sometimes some programs fail because of internal problems or inefficiency, and there are other factors, but resources are a really major part of the picture.The P-51 was ordered by the British for one. I don't know if there's any merit to the idea that the Americans would have built better weapons if there were Americans fighting. There wasn't even a language barrier. It might have gone even the other way.
I think people have too rosy views of war changing inventions made by individuals and clever strategies etc - it's in large part just a question of resources. If you for example put enough money into researching jet engines (if we assume you have enough of the right experts, if you have an educated society), you get jet engines in a certain time frame. There's some element of randomness perhaps, sometimes some programs fail because of internal problems or inefficiency, and there are other factors, but resources are a really major part of the picture.
The P-51 was ordered by the British for one. I don't know if there's any merit to the idea that the Americans would have built better weapons if there were Americans fighting. There wasn't even a language barrier. It might have gone even the other way.
