They had reasonable estimates of how much ammo, fuel, etc was required by an infantry division or an armored division in combat. Then you multiply by the number of units. Delivery, though..
The bravery. But also the logistics. How on Earth was this organized without computers?pic.twitter.com/7xMkhlowZ4
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The experience of Dieppe convinced they didn't want to directly attack a major port: so they built the Mulberries, artificial harbors. And then found you could load off the beach nearly as well.
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Nice one. Touché
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Compartmentalization, everything on a need-to-know basis and knowing nothing beyond that.
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without Powerpoint, all things are possible.
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A good General masters strategy. A great General masters logistics.
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Through trial and error. They learned from the mistakes of Operations Torch and Husky as well as the landings at Salerno and Anzio in Italy.
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Intact informal norms shared among a wide human population, with accompanying cooperative and coercive forces, can build conceptual pyramids that can easily frustrate the most powerful computer. Humans are the most crazy ass creatures on earth!
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