Interestingly enough, Hitler had eased up on the Brits. He was quite ambivalent about invading Britain.

There was a basic difference between the British and American ground strategies which paralleled the difference between the North and South in the American Civil War.

Grant for the North was quite careless with lives, and accepted a 3 to 1 casualty ratio with Lee. And that was wise, as the North had virtually unlimited manpower whereas Lee could not replace his losses.

The British have a smaller population and Montgomery was careful. The US pushed harder, accepting casualties even if only to hasten the inevitable. There was a relatively unlimited source of more troops. Patton was a great example of a general who really didn't care about the lives of the people under him.

One of Hitler's follies was the "no retreat" policy which cost him millions of hard to replace troops. He also had a limited manpower pool.

And in any ground war against China the US could find itself having to conserve manpower.

Arf