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Important context: As supreme commander in the European theatre, Roosevelt selected...a logistics expert. One who, in the opinion of the UK, delayed the primar
by gumby 3y ago
Important context: As supreme commander in the European theatre, Roosevelt selected...a logistics expert. One who, in the opinion of the UK, delayed the primary invasion for a whole year in the interest of getting all the ducks in a row (and then the fighting in Europe lasted less than a year from that invasion -- I think he got it right).
This is a hard problem and the executive branch (under both parties) and the pentagon have proactively made it worse from the 90s to today.
- rufus_foreman 3y ago>> I think he got it right I do too, I don't see how you get air supremacy with what the US had built by June of 1943. Maybe earlier in 1944, but certainly not a year earlier.
- gumby 3y agoGood example. Remember Rommel’s invasion of France bogged down by overrunning its supply chain. The war began for the US in ‘41 yet the major invasion didn’t happen for three and a half years.
- rufus_foreman 3y agoDecember of '41. Two and a half years. All of '42, all of '43, not quite half of '44.