The true power.

Unfortunately it's hard to make logistics interesting... unless you're Perun discussing how terrible Russian logistics is.

I’d watch it.. and Russian logistics is a great example of what can go wrong if it’s done improperly 😂

I would Imagin they do, It is the central concept of Western warfighting, it's kind of hard to get around 😂

YASSS!

Agreed.

An army marches on its stomach.

The model for logistics: The US military

Yes. It’s so often said that war is logistics, but then what exactly is logistics as it applies to war? I’m sure most people realise that it’s something like producing supplies and getting them to where they are needed as they are needed, but that summary really seems insufficient to understand “logistics”.

Wendover productions has done a pretty in-depth video on the us military logistics

I just found the Art of War Series and I'm excited to watch the videos about Urban and Guerrilla Warfare.... This is one of my new favorite channels of his...

Do not forget about the Strategic Bombing Campaign by Bomber Command and the 8h USAAF. I saw a post for IL-2 Sturmovik that had a Battle over Normandy Operation. I had to correct this because due to the Battles over NW Europe and Germany with the Bombers used as bait to bring the Luftwaffe Fighters up to destroy the Bombers and at the right moment the P51s and P47s bounced them day after day and essentially forced them back into Germany to defend the Fatherland and left the Allied Forces that landed on D-Day free to continuously land wave after wave of assault troops, tanks, ammo, other supplies and more. This was because the Allied Air Forces had achieved complete Air Supremecy in NW Europe. Many of you may have heard about the next WWII Miniseries like Band of Brothers and The Pacific which were made by Spielberg and Hank. This will focus on the Bombing Campaign and the men who flew and died in those Heavies. It is based heavily on the Book "Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought The Air War Against Nazi Germany." I had always been so interested in WWII and while ai knew and learned more about the Ground Forces in all theaters, I didn't go to far in depth on the Air War, whether in NW Europe or in the Pacific where it was fought differently by mostly Carrier Borne Fighters and when close enough due to bloody battles to take strategic Islands so the Bombers could hit Japan. I went off post though. When's i read that book, I had chills run down my spine at certain times. It details the Inception of the USAAF's first time in Britain to begin building the bases and runways for the bombers when they came. The first missions flown, then how wrong they were when they started flying to Germany and were just decimated by Luftwaffe Fighters, the hell these men went through for even a few minutes, the gory details, etc. I wont ruin the rest. But please, implore you to.resd this book

And having the backing of a production giant like the USA…that pilot was probably given a brand new bird with state of the art upgrades rather than a patched up piece of shit.

Easter?

Not only that but the British would cycle out their pilots they would serve on a tour of duty and then they would be grounded for a little bit and go on and teach others because they had combat and flight experience Germany by contrast didn't do this at all, pilots would be flown until they died making it all the more difficult to train new ones as those who had direct experience were not able to pass this along

Ah, 303 Squadron: some of the best pilots we had in the war!

This guy is known for not spitting historical accurate info. Take salt with his words

Niggle?

The US leveraged it's industrial scale against both Japan and Germany. Can you really hold your best pilots, or any at all, back when the there are literally thousands of US bombers in almost daily attacks on something important?

@@mattheww.6232 yes. You take the best 10 back to train, and after a couple of months you have 50 guys who have a massive leg up.

@@swj719 The United States would always have been able to swamp Japan with more pilots no matter what Japan’s training programs were. There is quality in numbers after all.

The other problems with Japan=some aircrew didn’t use parachutes & the Japs never attempted to rescue their aircrew.

​@@Dank-gb6jn*cough* Russia *cough*

@Dank-gb6jn Oh, you are one of those people. I should have guessed that given Russia currency was never that strong and you deflecting due to a lack of an argument but no even with different situations developing the us dollar will stay an important factor in the global economy for a long time

@@Dank-gb6jn😂😂😂😂 thanks, I needed a good laugh today.

@Dank-gb6jn stop pretending you are american because you aren't. You are doing little more than deflecting with a thin argument

@@kameronjones7139whatever you say, slick. You’re the one who started with the meme’d out *cough cough,* McCarthyism bs. I’m simply pointing out that the mass-printed dollar isn’t what it used to be. It doesn’t even crack top-5 on the list of strongest currencies; despite being on the list of top 10...must suck getting blown out by the Kuwaiti Dinar.

Precisely. Modern U.S. air doctrine dictates that many times air superiority is only necessary for a short period of time, say 30 minutes, while the vulnerable attack and strike aircraft, including helicopters, engage the front lines or in the enemy rear areas. Having constant air superiority can be achieved, but usually at a very high cost in dollars and Ops tempo.

Ah, poor old misunderstood mahan... the amount of times his works have been misunterpreted is incredible

Along with the naval supremacy the US enjoys, comes international air supremacy 🤷‍♂️ because we could stop anything from going anywhere, almost at any time.

You left out quite a few more, pretty much anything Western forces take on, such as the Yugoslavia breakup, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., etc..

@@sweetleaf9668 take air superiority is probably what he is referring to.

The American bombing of Korea flattened every single city in the country… American bombing in Vietnam dropped a higher tonnage than all sides in all theaters of WW2 combined!

WW2

What about Vietnam 😉

​​@@Aloh-od3eflook up his video on why the US failed in the Vietnam war. Cause I dunno, the disparity on the casualties/dead speaks a lot.

​@@keso_de_bola1750A lot of people I've spoken to when I asked them what they thought the KIA for each side was, they had the idea that the US had a higher amount of KIA than the NVA/VC. They are shocked when told the ratio is around 1 US KIA : 20 NVA/VC KIA. It seems to be a very common misconception.

​@@Aloh-od3ef US lost less than 60,000 men, Vietnam lost more than 1.3 million. Vietnam is just lucky US spared them and didn't dropped hundreds of nukes on them, more people including civilians would die.

Hahhahahahha the J-20, that's pretty funny. Introduced now? hahahhahah the F-22 was introduced 30+ years ago and deployed almost 20 years now. The J-20 can't be mentioned in the same class as the F-35 and definitely not with the F-22. The F-22 and F-35 are true stealth aircraft and very hard to detect. The J-20 is not an actual stealth aircraft like they are. It's probably harder to see than 4th gen fighters like the F-15, 16 and 18 but doesn't come close to the Raptor or Lightning II. Head to head, the J-20 would be spotted by the F-22 and F-35 long before it could see them therefore would be shot out of the sky without knowing it was even being targeted. It's like a minor league team playing a major league team. That isn't even talking about the most important aspect to a head to head engagement, the pilot. Everybody knows the US, along with Israel, have the best pilots in the world. This is because they have the best, most realistic training available with some having actual combat experience. Nothing beats combat experience. J-20 pilots along with every other Chinese pilot, have zero combat experience. They don't even have any retired pilots with it so they can't even learn anything from them. The best pilots flying the best aircraft is a combination that can't be beat. US pilots flying 4th gen fighters stand a pretty good chance in defeating the J-20 and an excellent chance of taking down all the other Chinese aircraft like the J-10, 11, 15 and 16. The J-31 might be a little better but still won't be in the same class as the F-22 and F-35. All China can do is steal and try and copy designs. They haven't been able to develop their own stuff. Hell the SU57 is a better aircraft than the J-20 is. hahahha

Saddam was weak, stupid, and naive. If the US had not been involved in Desert Storm, the British could have defeated Saddam just as effortlessly.

To be fair to Saddam, his air force wouldn't have really had any impact even if he had deployed it. The Iraqi Air Force in 1991 was massively stronger than in 2003, yet it was dismantled within weeks by Coalition forces.

Why? Because armchair warriors want to quote him while typing on their computer? Or do you think the top generals of the top militaries are sitting their reading Sun Tzu as they make their strategies?

@@Unknowngfyjoh You learn Sun Tzu in military college and a lot of his lessons get baked into standard operating procedure, or when something happens, theory gets reviewed again and procedure will get modified accordingly. Nobody directly quotes Sun Tzu often in a battlefield situation because you have to focus on the modern tools you need, but you can never neglect the influence of Sun Tzu or Clausewitz, etc.

@@Unknowngfyjoh No because of the video title

@@Unknowngfyjoh It's actually widely read in any good officer corp. The genius is that he wrote of higher level concept, each generation has to reconsider how it fits with their technology and capabilities. The concepts are baked into their education. Some look into why those ideas are and keep up with the newest hardware and how the latest conflicts were fought. So they don't read Sun Tzi and the Five Rings next to their war plans, they know it directly or indirectly by the time they are qualified to be in the room to make the plans. And since you are unlikely to know, the battle of Cannae and the campaigns of the Mongols - Subedai in particular - are still studied, even by the US military.

Sun Tzu said that! And I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do _pal_ because he invented it

Future war (hope not) will guarantee uses the Space Force (that P. Trump initiated,now they really putting money (P.Biden even allocated 20 billion more than the Military asked for,so ... China?. Good comment.

Yep 100% proof I was right and any argument with needing an airforce to use combined arms is something only a fool would believe. Might as well claim that rocks are lighter than air.

@@trli7117 You might be right. As the old saying goes "The pen is mightier than the Thord". The money we taxpayer spend on the military (think we in the US stands for 30 of the total of the whole world). If so,kinda tragic that NK, Afhaganistan, Iran etc still is like a joke to the US. England Controlled of the whole back in the days. We wasnt exacty a Empirear at that time,still we won! As Ukranane .well, tell sure as hell giving russia a good fight so far. Great reply.

Ya don't hv to.beat or, given good airtight AA/AD

It depends on how asymmetric the ground vs air is. The Soviet in Afghanistan is probably the best example.

Money almost always wins!

Problem is, air supremacy shows that ground anti-air needs aircraft to cover them. If you do not contest air superiority, the enemy will use aircraft to seek out the anti-air.

Communist forces in Korea and Vietnam had manpower advantage, home turf, plenty of resources, but couldn't really stop US air power from running amok and doing as they please over the combat zones, and militarily they got their teeth kicked in. It was politicians and conduct with civilians that eventually hamstrung US forces in Vietnam. Conduct with civilians that the communist forces got away with on a much larger and more heinous scale.

​@@ChucksSEADnDEADname checks out 😂 yeah ground AA without any air support is highly vulnerable to well executed SEAD

Exactly. It's better to have the wizard fighter pilot teach dozens of pilots to be able to shoot down maybe 5 planes than to keep them out there to maybe total 20.

I don't know if that's necessarily a failure given their situation. When the amount of fuel you have is very limited, it can make more sense that 10 hours of avgas is better spent having aces fly combat missions than giving a rookie pilot 10 hours more training, since there's no guarantee that he'll actually be that much better. Of course training is important, but when you're in a position like the Germans, where you have a lot of raids to fight off, and not a lot of fuel, difficult choices have to be made

@panzermk8 well they didn't do it at all. In the beginning of the war they could have.

That, and also in the Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe pilots who were shot down and survived bailed out over the UK, so were almost immediately taken prisoner. An RAF pilot who was shot down and survived could be back in the air within hours. That's an unsustainable form of attrition.

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@@ryanpayne7707 exactly 😂 may it hopefully not pit bull into a civilian airliner

​@@ryanpayne7707"go over there and fuck up someone's day, don't really care who."

@@swj719tbh I’m loving all the f22 memes (country’s with faces)

Yep it's really impressive to logistics the logistics that go behind the US can put in airplane anywhere in the world in the next 30 minutes if the need is great enough to demand it

@@ryanpayne7707 Every Ace Combat protagonists ever lol.

Oh that's a multitude of reasons why aircraft were ineffective I'll only list a few though Perhaps first and foremost the adversary were diggers, best way to escape an incoming aerial strike is to get out of the area, and deep into the earth is a very effective strategy For 40 years the Vietnamese had developed a massive complex infrastructure all underground whilst fighting the French. Meaning it was not very difficult to expand this already existing system when engaging with the Americans. As many former fighters already knew where and how to use and expand the system And at the time United States do not have any munitions that could penetrate very deep into the Earth Another reason was the adversaries had discovered the call signs for the US aircraft and were capable of predicting the type of aircraft incoming and what munitions would be utilized Making the Americans and their aerial engagements very predictable

BF1 and BF3 really ensured that ace pilots could dictate the flow of the game

Machines can never replace humans. Sure, you can program them to do everything a human does, but change 1 single element, and they stop working.

@@marktg98 that's true but at this point there's no real reason for the human to be IN the machine

Maybe cause if the signal were interfered with, the Air Force would all crash