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The Marcks Plan

Yeah if I were stupid I'd have said "10x the artillery weight but only in 81mm mortars" but I didn't... ;) Logistics is contextual. Everything is contextual. See Green Book on the transport corps in NWE. US Army had many of the exact same problems as Ostheer in NWE: not enough railway...

Artillery park is, relatively speaking, a minor factor. Far more important is ammo (output). While the Allies had the right kind of guns, they had far too little ammo relative to their potential (and probably too few guns as well). The US Army faced a shell crisis in the midst of the NWE...

I have a post on recent reading addressing this somewhat here. Summary: no later than after Munich, France knew it needed the SU to have a good shot at winning. But its leaders were too weak/irresolute to force Britain to make the necessary concessions to Stalin or to tell the UK to fuck off...

There's a fundamental difference between short-term, opportunistic uses of Bolshevists in support of broader agendas (German victory over Russia, hurting the Czar, getting a particular business deal) and long-term propping up of the Communist regime by Wall Street in general (ATP's claim). The...

Changing from pretty sure to you're definitely deranged. The old wall street-commie alliance... wonder what role you think "rootless cosmopolitans" play in this.

Not sure I entirely understand this garble but I'm pretty sure you're deranged.

Sources and summary below, comparing July-Nov "Tot" for Feldheer+WSS in the East only. 1941: July: 36.858 August: 41.039 Sept: 29.419 Oct: 24.056 Nov: 17.806 Total: 149.178 1943: July: 34.874 August: 33.962 Sept: 20.264 Oct: 25.815 Nov:18.609 Total: 133.524 In 1941, RKKA fronts averaged...

This is incorrect; I went back and checked. Reading the 10-day reports again from the archived ww2stats.com, I have to say that I can't support my earlier assertions about June 1941 Ostheer casualties. I can't remember why, at some point, I decided that the German Yearbook stats were more...

My reply indicates the difference by addressing them separately.

I don't trust those numbers (the AHF cite is to the wrong page, btw - p1020 of GSWW v.5/1, not p885). GSWW's source is the "10-day troop sickness certificates," which is a very odd source to use. Why would the administrative body tallying sickness certificates have any insight into how many were...

I find him incredibly annoying on twitter as well. Total midwit. Because he seems like the kind of person who would care, I'd love to let him know that I went to a much better law school than him. The direct fire method is more efficient with shells. We have to keep analytical levels...

They were always ahead in shell expenditure, even in 1944. This post on another forum is pretty good. Nonetheless it's simplistic, IMO, to say that "the shell is the weapon." (as one guest on WW2TV recently argued). A shell has a different combat value depending on from what and where it's...

We're discussing entirely quantitative matters: That RKKA killed more Germans per day in 1941 than did similar-sized Western armies in France. That RKKA killed about as many Germans per day in 1941 as in 1943. The stats are clear - I assume you know that (1) and (2) are true. Specifically...

I'm no suggesting more traditional direct-fire artillery. Tanks are much less vulnerable in this role. Tank crews are highly trained too; RKKA loses fewer of them in my sub-ATL. What evidence that RKKA used less direct fire after 1942? Again true for traditional direct fire arty, not really...