Honestly reading a Stephen Hunter book about a spetznaz unit seizing a MX missile base and another Nhilist Tom Clancy book called Fire Lance by David Mace probably taught me more about nuclear warfare than most graduate level courses.
Yeah, I think the theory evolved after seeing the loss rates / resupply needs of both sides during the Yom Kippur war. Or something. I am neither a professional nor a historian, I got exposed to these theories the traditional way: bad airport thrillers, Microprose manuals and weird RPGs.
I think (and it's a vague memory) but the theory evolved from "nukes are gonna wreck your industrial base so you won't build new stuff" to "we are gonna shred or expend all this high tech stuff so fast you won't be able to rearm with the same stuff"
Every western front story by 1945 is like "Hans and his womderweapons who gets resupplied every other month by a 70 year old man with a horse against the US army who were civilians 12 months ago, backed up by more artillery and airpower than the entire Nazi army, also the Americans have fresh cake"
Homing torpedoes? Allies had a lot more. Sucks to be you U-Boat fritz, we got escort carriers, airborne radar, Leigh lights and fucking air dropped torpedoes. Eat a dick.
We could dedicate a lot of airframes to the mission. Guided airborme munitions? Neat, but they didn't work well and the Allies had them also. Electronic warfare? Allies crush the Nazis in this department (read up on the army Air corps airborne jammers during the battle of the bulge).
Panzerfaust? Neat solution for when you're conscripting old men and 13 year olds. Know what the allies used when their infantry needed to kill a tank? Another tank. We had a lot of them. And artillery. A LOT of artillery. And close air support, because since the Nazi air force got shredded, 4/
think what the Brits and Americans did to Germany was bad, imagine what would have happened if the Mighty 8th got B-29s. And oh yeah, this is one area where the Nazis could have developed proximity fuses but they didn't and even if they did I can't imagine they'd build a lot of them. 3/
built way better shit and for way better reasons. The Germans made some niche wonder weapons that didn't effect the outcome of the war. V-2? Very impressive, you had to build it because your strategic air arm didn't exist. The allies cranked out strategic bombers like it was nothing, and if you 2/
I can't believe how dumb this guy is. Yeah, the fucking Nazis built some neat shit that's fun to use in wargames. Having your opponent show up with a Tiger 2 in a play balanced scenario sucks because it's play balanced and you're going to need to kill it somehow. But historically, the Allies 1/x
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