I quite agree that this is “Monday Morning Quarterbacking” — most articles about historical events are precisely that.

And no, I don’t think I used “current western military strategies” — when writing about history, I do strive to keep it in the context of the times.

I also agree that the Soviets didn’t have the same approach as the western forces when it comes to loss of life…but that was not the salient fact. What is important is that from the moment he learned that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, Churchill was certain that the Allies would win the war…and so he would certainly have begun planning for what would happen after the fall of Nazi Germany. He deeply despised the Soviets, especially given the trainloads of raw materials they’d been shipping Germany even during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

So when it came to “what happens _when_ Germany falls?” Churchill’s first concern would have been the Soviets, how to weaken them, and how to stop them…and how to do so without being seen as an implacable enemy of the Russian people.