Is it such a big blip? I didn't see that established either, but I may have missed it while skimming through. The risk of having to support troops from a subop

Is it such a big blip? I didn't see that established either, but I may have missed it while skimming through. The risk of having to support troops from a suboptimal spot further away could have a very real impact on casualty rate in a conflict. So I think you do really have to quantify the tradeoffs here to say if one is better than the other.