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Originally Posted by John Vasco
And this: '...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?"...' Do you not think that researchers do that? Sheesh!
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Well, I'm not so sure,
because for the third or fourth time: What could have been done if Bodenplatte was such a bad idea? What alternatives did the Luftwaffe have on that day?
I'm all ears.
Because in the the absence of any historical *analysis* to the contrary, that is, after 85-years, (and after all the Bodenplatte beans have been relentlessly counted,) if not a single Luftwaffe expert historian can propose a better idea, or indeed, a list of alternative ideas, then maybe Operation Bodenplatte wasn't such a bad idea after all. Bodenplatte has been universally denigrated--an operation forced on the Luftwaffe by the Führer--but maybe the 'bad idea' is absolute nonsense.
Are we coming to the realization that the study of history might require a mental process commonly known as,
ANALYSIS, and counting up the beans of Luftwaffe history is merely the first, and very, preliminary step in what a Luftwaffe historian should be doing?
Bodenplatte has been grossly mischaracterized for the last 85-years. Prove me wrong.
Bronc