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Originally Posted by Broncazonk
... If you study (are interested in) air strategy, grand strategy, war production, manpower allocation, logistics or tactics of any kind, well, then you have to start asking questions like, "why didn't they do this?" "What prevented them from doing that?"
Just depends on what you are interested in, I suppose.
Bronc
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These issues have been and are being studied. Sources include, for example, the planning documents of the headquarters of the period studied and their background materials, as well as war games and their accompanying materials. The problem is often that the source material is incomplete or non-existent. Up to a certain point, the situation can be patched up from other surviving materials, but even that is usually quite limited. The headquarters have usually gone through various options and the possibilities of implementing them considering the information they had at the time. Very few historians are top experts in even one sector of military art, let alone several. Many "armchair generals" had very limited knowledge of e.g. military topography and even less understanding of logistics.