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James Holland

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

It's like 189,000 strong, which might seem reasonably large by today's standards, but it's absolutely tiny by 1939 standards.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, whereas, you know, Germany's got an army of,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

three and a half million in 1939.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So, you know, these are big, big, big differences.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

But America's coming at it from a different perspective.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Britain's coming at it from a different perspective.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, Britain's empire is all about, you know, it's a shipping, it's a seaborne empire.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, Britain's empire is all about, you know, it's a shipping, it's a seaborne empire.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, Britain's empire is all about, you know, it's a shipping, it's a seaborne empire.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You know, Britain's empire is all about, you know, it's a shipping, it's a seaborne empire.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Whereas there's also another point, which is having large armies is actually inherently impractical and inefficient because the larger army, the more people you've got to feed, the more kind of barracks you've got to have, the more space you've got to have for training, the more people you're taking out of your workforce to produce tanks and shells and all the rest of it because they're tramping around with rifles.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Whereas there's also another point, which is having large armies is actually inherently impractical and inefficient because the larger army, the more people you've got to feed, the more kind of barracks you've got to have, the more space you've got to have for training, the more people you're taking out of your workforce to produce tanks and shells and all the rest of it because they're tramping around with rifles.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Whereas there's also another point, which is having large armies is actually inherently impractical and inefficient because the larger army, the more people you've got to feed, the more kind of barracks you've got to have, the more space you've got to have for training, the more people you're taking out of your workforce to produce tanks and shells and all the rest of it because they're tramping around with rifles.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Whereas there's also another point, which is having large armies is actually inherently impractical and inefficient because the larger army, the more people you've got to feed, the more kind of barracks you've got to have, the more space you've got to have for training, the more people you're taking out of your workforce to produce tanks and shells and all the rest of it because they're tramping around with rifles.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So there's an argument saying, actually, it's not a very good way of doing things.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So there's an argument saying, actually, it's not a very good way of doing things. So very much the British way and subsequently the United States way and way of Britain's dominions and empire is to use kind of steel, not our flesh as a principle. The idea is that you use steel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So there's an argument saying, actually, it's not a very good way of doing things. So very much the British way and subsequently the United States way and way of Britain's dominions and empire is to use kind of steel, not our flesh as a principle. The idea is that you use steel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So there's an argument saying, actually, it's not a very good way of doing things. So very much the British way and subsequently the United States way and way of Britain's dominions and empire is to use kind of steel, not our flesh as a principle. The idea is that you use steel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So very much the British way and subsequently the United States way and the way of Britain's dominions and empire is to use kind of steel, not our flesh as a principle.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 – James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

The idea is that you use steel.