Re: What if we ignored N. Africa and the MTO?

"ArtKramr"  wrote
> What then? The war in central Europe (ETO)  could have gotten our full
> resouces, D Day would have been a year earlier  and the war would have
been
> over a lot sooner,  German troops in No. Africa and the MTO would have
simply
> been isolated and would died on the vine. Why not?

Mainly because we would have been handed our heads, trying to invade in
mid-1943. The short reason would be that the Sovs wouldn't have whittled
down the Wehrmacht enough at that point to make a Western Front possible.
Also the Brits wouldn't go. Churchill and the Imperial General Staff were
scared stiff of a direct confrontation with the Wehrmacht based on their
experience in 1940.