raharris1973
Gone Fishin'
Absolutely. Planning needs to take phasing and sequencing into account to arrange time, space and forces correctly. However, my complaint with some discussion on this board is that many think of various spatial, geographic, terrain factors too deterministically as absolute dictators over doing campaigns in a strategic direction or not, when they are simply *challenges* one needs to compensate for, and you should not assume your enemy would never figure out how, or that you never could.Correct. for the better part of 25 years I was paid to study, think about, plan, and execute such operations. The landing operations or beach assault is about 10% of the effort in a brigade, corps, or army size over the sea operation. The rest of the effort is in preparation and follow up. Just loading a ship correctly for shore to shore or a ship to shore oepration. is a unique skill set that ordinary armies, or merchant marine skippers don't have. The 700 or 800 tons per day you need to sustain a small corps of 25,000 or 35,000 men is not the same 800 mix of items you load at the start or load at many points along the time span of a amphibious operation. Screw that up and you lose 12,000+ men to starvation as the Japanese did on Guadalcanal.