
Prolonged Warfare
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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The Home Front Makes a Big Difference
The home front does make a big difference. The german people suffered terribly from embargos and maritime blacquets. War were on, and they did not break until the very end. And that's why germany lasted so long. You haven't have support. In the case of the united states, the problem was that it was considered an optional war. We weren't being attacked it. It was like a mid east war later. People felt the administrations of johnson and nixon were unable to say effectively if you lose veat nam, we're going to become communists. Nobody believed that as they had believed in korea. A whole generation of much more affluent
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