Comments on: Cycles of War https://www.isegoria.net/2015/01/cycles-of-war/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Handle https://www.isegoria.net/2015/01/cycles-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-2098911 Handle Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:11:22 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37262#comment-2098911 “The ability to see and strike deep using ground and aerial platforms served to expand the battlefield by orders of magnitude. What was once a theater area for a field army now became the area of operations for a division or a corps.”

Take a look at a order-of-battle map of the fronts at Normandy even a few months after D-Day. Division after division crammed next to each other. Walls made of men. It’s amazing.

“Thus, in a conflict involving two roughly equal — or symmetrical — forces, evidence seems to show convincingly that the advantage goes to the defender.”

This goes too far I think. There are far too many confounding variables.

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