I've been looking over some old Congressional Records and here is the best guess insofar as the Air Farce...
USAF is supposed to maintain about 30 days of war stock, past that, controlled stripping of damaged aircraft to maintain serviceable aircraft to keep aircraft flying for another 15 days.... Right!
The one that had me shaking my head is that US industry was supposed to be in full scale production within that 45-day window!
Then there was a mention that the various ac builders would not be able to restore full production for a period of six months...minimum.
Keeps coming right back to the lead time going into war. To sustain anything like what GDW came up with, there had to be at least a 3-5 year build-up of forces.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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