world in size and combat power just behind romania when there was 146 german divisions conquered western europe nine months later the department reported that it could field just five divisions. the coastal defense hadn't been fired in 20 years and the army had them protect even a single american city. the building of the armed forces was likened to the reconstruction of the dinosaur a round three vertebrae. then from the second in the trilogy of the battle from beginning to end, allied war making in the mediterranean tended to be in improvisational, and finally, from the guns at last flight which just came out you wrote the cohesion and the total coherence of the allied coalition had a shared victory the better alliance one, certainly it was possible to look at the war making on any given day and feel heartsick of the missed opportunities and the