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Originally Posted by Raellus
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I see it as strongly implied, by the 4e rulebook's presumption that military units generally need to brew alcohol fuel for their vehicles.
A major lesson of the Allied strategic bombing campaign during WW2 is that its biggest impact was achieved by targeting oil refineries. Raids against Axis war production largely failed to achieve significant reductions in arms (in fact, it increased every year until 1945); damage to transportation and infrastructure was often repaired fairly quickly. Raids on cities did not lower morale as much as hoped. In fact, studies showed that bombing raids usually steeled resolve instead of weakening it. Raids against oil refineries and synthetic oil production, however, brought the Axis war machine to a near standstill. If the Allied air forces had shifted their focus to bombing oil production earlier in the war, the war very likely would have ended earlier than it did.
I can't see either side ignoring that lesson in WWIII.
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So I agree that the Soviets and US probably would target oil infrastructure in the territories of their enemies and their allies. The US isn’t going to miss a chance to target Baku and the Soviets are definitely hitting Houston/Beaumont (among other locations), but I guess I should narrow my point down that the deliberate targeting of oil infrastructure in *neutral* countries doesn’t seem to be the case in 4e.