This was very helpful and exactly what I needed. Thank you.
I'll be in my final semester of grad school this fall, but if it's not this year, we'll be up there the following.
I've been in the Centennial Club for events, but never for a game. My wife doesn't really want to sit out in the elements, and quite frankly, she's the breadwinner and boss. Anyone vouch for the experience up there?
My brother retired a couple years ago from the US Army as a Blackhawk pilot. When this nonsense started a few weeks ago, he insisted there was almost no chance he'd be recalled. "They'll run out of helicopters before they run out of pilots." I would think this is a common across nations.
This doesn't mean anything. Japan was a whipped dog by the time the Soviets came around. Part of the reason Truman dropped the bombs was to secure a surrender before the USSR grabbed large swaths of east Asia from a Japanese military that couldn't have put up a fight.
My point was a full strength Japan attacking a USSR that was already getting its ass kicked by Germany would have ended the eastern front.
All Russia had to do was have enough men to absorb the blow from the Wehrmacht long enough to let Germany lose on every other front and collapse. The Red Army was not exactly one to be admired in WWII. If the Japanese had left the US alone and attacked Russia instead, Russia would have fallen.