Posted on Jul 2, 2023
Echoes of the Past: The Burma Campaign and Future Operational Design in the Indo-Pacific R
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" Maneuvers executed with simultaneity and depth through cross-domain operations will dislocate the enemy and outpace its capacity to respond. Future operational designs can control the initiative by incorporating creative schemes of maneuver that sustain momentum throughout the operation, exploiting comparative temporal advantages that deny the enemy options."
Echoes of the Past: The Burma Campaign and Future Operational Design in the Indo-Pacific R
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WWII World War Two
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I don’t know much about the Burma campaign. The terrain and the weather were miserable. The Japanese army would eventually experience severe attrition while the British and US would build up their forces and logistics capabilities. You can’t win a war without beans, bulllets, and fuel.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
LTC Eric Udouj - Wow what a silly metric. It only makes sense the more the Japanese retreated the more they left behind. Fortunately, the Germans and Japanese were fools by attacking and occupying too many countries.
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LTC Eric Udouj
It was a long while before the Axis retreated (minus the Italians in Africa). But the supply line that can only give you so little time means that force and spirit is all you got way too soon. Had the Japanese built up their routes and rail - could they have managed to not starve at the far end of the spear? They had not been beaten - so that was not really a factor is how history seems to read. Lee at Gettysburg - when after the battle had two days of ammo left... supply lines being what they were.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
LTC Eric Udouj - The Imperial Japanese Navy fought to limit the Army's footprint due to the logistics requirements, but obviously lost that battle. I have a feeling that Japan and Germany had expanded the war so greatly, that logistics would have never been effective throughout the territories. It's a matter of the laws of physics.
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