Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Why were Wehrmacht Logistics so bad?" video.

Logisistics is an important subsystem or component of the war-making system. We conceptualize it as a discrete component, but it also blends (or bleeds) into other subsystems. Bernard touched on this: The Wehrmacht didn’t just have a problem of getting supplies to the front, but they had the even bigger problem of the soldiers keeping any sort of pace with the tanks. Even those infantry units equipped with trucks had to contend with terrible conditions of roads (which got even worse after rain). Without relatively equal mobility among the branches, combined arms doctrine falls apart. Envelopment strategies are not as effective (or doomed to failure) if the main force infantry is a day or more behind the tanks. Put another way, war-making system is a country’s war-making capacity. The German leadership was well aware of their limitations in raw materials. industrial capacity, and transport but at the same time chose to ignore it in their planning. They had a misplaced faith that it would somehow work itself out.
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@fulcrum2951 It should be. To some degree, it always is—most military leaders understand the importance of protecting your lines of communication and supply.
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