Weren't they bad at logistics too?
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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It can be urged they weren’t even exceptionally great at tactics either - would say Soviets were superior from 1943 onwards.
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It's quite funny; when people don't just fawn over "Schwerpunkt!" and "Blitzkrieg!" but ask what these mean/how they work, their descriptions often come out 1) more detailed than the original hype balloons, and 2) awfully similar to the "deep battle" doctrine of the Soviets.
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I mean okay but people go around asking "who had the strongest right hook in WW2" and also it concedes the mythologizing of the Wehrmacht.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I get kind of suspicious of people who defend the Wehrmacht; much like people who defend the CSA, they usually turn out to be horrible people.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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cf. the mythology of midway as the decisive moment of fate in the pacific, vs the pretty compelling case in SHATTERED SWORD that the outcome of the war was determined from the minute the bombs started falling on pearl harbor
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i.e. telling the story of the pacific theater in terms of tactics and battles, not strategy and logistics
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It is a great corollary to your favorite observation about operational thinking not being a replacement for strategic thinking though - "Operational capability does not make up for strategic incompetence"
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Probably true with WWII, although I've been thinking about this a lot. Both tactics and strategy are basically about the optimum use of resources, but applied to different levels. So good tactics certainly creates opportunities for good strategy 1/
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If you can do with a platoon what the other guy needs a company, you will have more resources to go around, and that might also scale up to the strategic level.
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BUT, there is obviously a disconnect, and having optimal armor tactics or a culture of Auftragstaktik is probably not enough to overcome the blunder of going to war with the two most powerful states in the world within a six month span in 1941.
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