How The War Was Won: Air-sea Power And Allied V... ✦ 【PREMIUM】

Instead, O'Brien argues that the war was a global struggle for air and sea supremacy, won through production, technology, and the systematic destruction of Axis equipment before it ever reached the "battlefield". Core Arguments

: The book highlights that the vast majority of military production for all major belligerents—including Germany—was devoted to air and sea warfare rather than land forces. For instance, air and sea weapons accounted for at least two-thirds of German weapons production. How the War was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied V...

: O'Brien defines the true conflict as a thousand-mile-long air-sea "super-battlefield" where the Allies used their industrial might to inhibit Axis movement. Instead, O'Brien argues that the war was a

: Attacking equipment while it was in transit to the front lines. Reception and Perspectives : O'Brien defines the true conflict as a

: He posits that air and sea power destroyed over 50% of Axis military equipment during pre-production, production, and transit phases.

: Some historians, such as those on WW2Talk , argue that O'Brien underestimates the psychological and physical necessity of land armies to actually "kill the will" of the enemy and occupy territory.