Re Strategic Reserve.

[K.D.Balderson@lboro.ac.uk]

>Roy Wilke <royboy@bit.dotnet.dotau> wrote in message
>37CC0689.B32BA1E8@bit.dotnet.dotau">news:37CC0689.B32BA1E8@bit.dotnet.dotau...
>
> But in the 1914-18 War, reliance on railways contributed greatly to the
stagnation on the
> Western Front. 

    Umm! what would you have the combatants rely on - remember horses
provided much of the transport (and were used to a surprising extent in
ww2, earlier years at least).

    Some "expert" in military/transport stuff (forgot who) calculated
that if the channel tunnel had existed in 1914 ww1 would have been
ended decisively by about 1916 because British/French/whoever's main
problem was getting supplies over the channel. If true you can speculate
about ensuing history...

-- 
Cheers, Keith.