I read a lot of history books during the lockdowns, and it really illuminated for me how much of war boils down to logistics. You can’t expect to win battles wi

I read a lot of history books during the lockdowns, and it really illuminated for me how much of war boils down to logistics. You can’t expect to win battles without good logistics, but even if you do, your victories wont mean anything without good logistics. For instance Hannibal had basically defeated the Roman Republic at Cannae, but then spent the next 14 years meandering around Italy failing to reinforce or adequately resupply his army. Eventually leading to unconditional Carthaginian defeat. Much of the reason that neither the Ottomans or the Persians managed to properly defeat the other in their many wars came down to the difficult terrain that separates them cutting any advancing army off from proper reinforcements.