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There's a possibly apocryphal story about a Japanese higher-up who realized the war was lost when the ice cream barges showed up, because the Allies had that mu
by ceejayoz 1y ago
There's a possibly apocryphal story about a Japanese higher-up who realized the war was lost when the ice cream barges showed up, because the Allies had that much spare resources for a treat while the Japanese troops were starving in the jungles.
- wagwang 1y agothats what happens when you have 1 support unit per in field troop instead of 36.
- teachrdan 1y agoI've heard the same said about German POWs in WWII. Towards the end of the war, when they were served tea and biscuits while their comrades in the field starved, they knew the British (and Allies more generally) were going to win.
- carabiner 1y agoThere's also the version with the NY cheesecake.
- idontwantthis 1y agoI heard of a Boston Apple Pie.
- ashoeafoot 1y agoThe absence of horses
- rasz 1y agorussians are running donkeys nowadays in Ukraine, doesnt seem to break their morale at all
- _carbyau_ 1y agoAt it's heart a battle is a logistic operation to make an impact. A battle rifle fired bullet is a delivery; working back from that bullet as to how it got fired reveals a "tyranny of the rocket equation" kind of logistics. If your opposition has something as basic as food while you don't. Well, logistics is broken == "ability to make an impact" is broken
- aaron695 1y ago[dead]