On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:02:41 -0500, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>one of boyd's stories about ww2 ... was US running ww2 on mass hordes, >overwhelming resources, and logistics (because it didn't people to run >it based on "skills"). one example he used was sherman tank that was >significantly overmatched ... but US could produce them at ten times the >rate of german tanks ... and so could win via attrition (modulo issue >with morale among tank crews that were being used as cannon fodder). Even more important than out-tanking the enemy was out-Jeeping them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
