Interesting read on Abe Wald by @JSEllenberg; "…the American defense establishment has traditionally understood… winners are usually the guys who get 5% fewer of their planes shot down, or… get 5% more nutrition into their infantry at 95% of the cost."https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-be-wrong-by-jordan-ellenberg-664e708cfc3d …
That doesn't sound like a description of any war in the last eight decades.
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Most of the time the winners *were* the ones with more efficient logistics - it just wasn't decisive. But military planners don't bank on military dominance in the future - and (rightly or wrongly) near-peer warfare is what they have been worrying about.
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