i've often thought about this, because i was reading again, and the image popped into my head of the analogy here. The united states is going to have a very big footprint in this war, and in the pacific, it's going to be overwhelmingly large. But as lord moran said, all churchill could see was all the tanks, planes and ships that the united states was going to bring to the table. And he writes about it, arcadia lasted for another two weeks. Much had been plished, but some of the british left disgruntled. Now, quoting lord morin, the americans have got their way and the war will be run from washington