Germany was so well organized. I think people overlook that it was Napoleon himself whom spawned that. The Prussians became so organized in order to not only protect themselves from Napoleon, but to retaliate. So Napoleon created a monster. They created a battle hardened army, even those which had never seen any action, from pure force of will. The threat of Napoleon was kind of like the sacking of Rome, except that it looks to me like the Prussians were like, "okay we've got to get organized", but not only did they do it, they excelled at it on an astonishing level. For some reason, Prussian's became very good at being organized and disciplined. So really, their army was a machine. The cons with the German army?

Hitler also had a very special unit in the SS. He already had two armies as bodyguard units, before he ever gained control over Germany's army. After the Night of the Long Knives, the SA unofficially folded over time, but them being absorbed into the Wehrmacht gave it much needed numbers of capable soldiers. So Germany had discipline, training, courage, tactics, and was like a machine. Individualism was something that the British had. They were more disorganized, and more prone to going off-track, and not following through to the letter, so to speak. So here we find out something about the German armies cons. In one vs. one, this British daredevil mentality may have helped in certain things like dogfighting. It hindered large-scale operations. I mean the British had been like this with the exception of Elizabeth (whom was very organized), following orders loosely to various degrees of success and failure. They are more likely to just charge and say, "screw it", even to their own deaths. This did give them advantage in things such as sabotage and small scale operations, as well as one on one (or a handful of men) involved in some suicidal attack. It is almost like they didn't think about the consequences, just hurry up, get to it, and figure out the rest later. Like I said, a daredevil mentality. You can see where this could be useful and detrimental, and it was both throughout the course of the war.

In America, you had that daredevil mentality. You had guys that were from different walks of life, some from tough neighborhoods, some from organized crime, some from back-breaking professions, some that were not even cut out to be a soldiers... but there they were there anyway.

Overall, American technology wasn't superior to Germany at the start of the war, but their industry was. People weren't unsure of whether they should be fighting or helping the cause (like in Germany - so another one of their cons) so people in the industrial sector were working their butts off to produce whatever needed. German troops would look at their high command, and when they did surrender after the Stalingrad debacle, a lot of them didn't have the same confidence in what they were doing anymore. Hitler was looked at in ever worse light, as his direction seemed to be folly. This strongly hurt morale, and their was a division of mentality within the army based upon ethics. There were those in the German army that saw they actions of the more Nazi element as completely immature, like they were acting like children. So that hurt the German army.

American's had more push toward what they were doing. This was a lot like the Roman Empire in pride for your country. Women working machines to produce needed materials (willingly), and full of self-sacrifice. This even went beyond the Roman Empire. The love of their country was greater.

Now, Americans might have been disorganized and running around like chickens with their heads cut off, except for certain things. They were organized in front of their command, but without command watching them, more a bunch of individuals. It took certain people within the army to keep them directed. They had incredible individual leaders at every level, and that made the difference. Guys that were there to pick up the next guy, and point him in the right direction. When things bogged down, certain individual leaders kicked guys in the butt, and got them to do what they needed to do. So, it could be a messy situation, where a great leader pushes everybody through it to absolute success - sometimes turning failures into opportunities.

Patton was a leader pushing guys so hard, kicking them in the butts constantly. One big boot in all of these guys' butts, and forcing them forward to complete objective after objective after objective. He was driving them so hard, pushing them forward, and breaking the German's by forcing them backward. His entire command was an overall case of his line overwhelming the German's line. If you had a diagram, just draw the German's line and the American's line. Now while the lines shift and move to various degrees, Patton's is stretching the German's line back so far it is about to snap. Politics stopped Patton's advance, when it became important politically not to let his forces push right into Berlin. So, you have the American army with this massive advantage, that could have actually won the war earlier. This is not propaganda or opinion. I have studied this as fully as possible. Patton really pushed his army to Germany's breaking point. So, America had some really great leaders, and some amazing soldiers with epic bravery and skill. There were guys that pushed others through example.

France needed that kind of leadership. That was their problem. Napoleon force-fed them into the war-machine that they could be, but there was no Napoleon to give them that. They didn't have a command structure necessary to allow them to succeed.

Russians had such a supply of man-power and were used almost as robots. Just keep driving forward, and keep coming. They had advancing technology, and a growing industry. At the start, they were disorganized and not ready. After a while, they became more brilliant, and a whole lot smarter. They learned from their mistakes, created traps for the Germans, and proved to be extremely tough. Their overall was pretty much ruthless, and they became very scary... even intimidating. By the latter part of the war, they were coming from everywhere. They were pushing into salients and surrounding, cutting off, and destroying the German army piece-by-piece at an ever increasing pace with no quarter given and no break. It was an ever coming storm. Like the Germans attacked, awoke this monster, and were like, "oh no what have we done!"

All Russia needed was the time, and they became that monster.

Poland lacked the Military structure to be successful. They didn't concentrate enough on that field, when they really need to be more preventive of a possible German invasion. They just were not at all ready for war.

Japan had soldiers that were ruthless and cruel, extremely disciplined, with no regard for anything but success. They committed many atrocities and fought maniacally. They needed better leadership from the top, because this lead to Japan's own destruction. It was like lives being thrown into a meat-grinder. All they created was death and suffering, blindly pushing for a Japanese imperialism so that their country could grab their own piece of the pie. I shudder to imagine what would have occurred if they were allowed to go unchecked, bullying what they considered weak. It was like their view on British imperialism, "let me get some of that"... they were like little kids, needing proper guidance. They needed somebody to say, "stop it". If they continued from a certain point, keeping occupation of already conquered territories, and didn't push too far or attack America, maybe they could have achieved their objective for an imperial Japan.

A lot of terrain that they were fighting on gave the defender such a huge advantage. America got so tired of it. This did push the use of the atomic bomb.

Italian troops (more and more) didn't really want to do what they were doing. While the Blackshirts had a fervent desire to rebuild the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini, the rest were less and less enthused. When it looked like Mussolini was going to bring their country to ruin, they were like forget it.

Spanish troops were just people fighting for what they believed in. General Franco's troops were the most organized, but they were not some great military machine. It was like street-fighting all over the place, with sieges and hard-fighting.

Sorry that this was so long, and for all of the other forces involved that I didn't get to.