BF2S Forums Which One Was the Most Important in WWII?

Air power.

Food.

There was no most important asset in WWII. Without any of these listed, the others would've been screwed. Logistics seem to fit nicely as an 'assist all' asset, but without anything to command, they too are useless.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2007-03-22 17:25:09)

Air power and logistics. Air power gives dominance, it gave Germany dominance in the start of barbarossa, then gave the Russians dominance in the winter, gave Germany dominance over the channel, then after a year dominance for the Brits, it gave dominance over the Med to Germany then 2 years later dominance to the allies.

What more can I say.

usmarine2007 wrote:

Food.

Germany lost the war because they did not have the resources to fuel and feed their army. The Russians could also pursue in large part due to the fact that Britian and the U.S. shipped them supplies. But this goes hand in hand with air superiority and infantry, as Air power can easily eliminate armor, so can infantry.

=JoD=Corithus wrote:

This has been covered in a topic of mine from many a moon ago....infantry is usless if you can't feed them, air power is useless if your planes don't have fuel, same with naval vessels and armor.

Without a good logistical supply chain, nothing moves, nothing fights, and all aspects of your military, no matter how high tech or effective, just became useless.
Logistics, plan and simple.

Oh, and superslim, your 5 ton truck dosen't get anything done if it dosen't have fuel itself.

I agree with your point, logistics is very important, but without men in the field who would fire the weapons or take a village?  Remember infantry did the greatest sacrifice during the WWII.

Other.  Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with the Nuke's.  They made a really freaking huge difference.

=JoD=Corithus wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

=JoD=Corithus wrote:

This has been covered in a topic of mine from many a moon ago....infantry is usless if you can't feed them, air power is useless if your planes don't have fuel, same with naval vessels and armor.

Without a good logistical supply chain, nothing moves, nothing fights, and all aspects of your military, no matter how high tech or effective, just became useless.
Logistics, plan and simple.

Oh, and superslim, your 5 ton truck dosen't get anything done if it dosen't have fuel itself.

I agree with your point, logistics is very important, but without men in the field who would fire the weapons or take a village?  Remember infantry did the greatest sacrifice during the WWII.

How did the infantry get to the fight? Get their weapons? Get the ammo for those weapons? Get food and water and medical supplies so they can survive?
Logistics.

via 5 ton truck...it won the war for the allies. Fast movement of troops and supplies

Everything is important.  IMO debating over which is most important is dumb.  There are soooooooo many other factors besides just the physical aspects of war.  Because the Allies had great logistics, they were able to invade France on D-day.  Because the Allies had almost total air control over Europe in 1944/45, infantry was able to move in without danger of airstrikes.

It just goes in a cirlce.  Like the Battlefield 1942 box, or rock-paper-scrissors.  Plane bombs tank, tank destroys anti-aircraft gun, anti aircraft gun destroys plane.

All of them.

paranoid101 wrote:

Logistics, all the other are useless without them.

Without infantry, you can't invade a country.  Without a Navy, you can't ship infantry to other continents.