Re: Strategic Reserve.

[dave pierson <pierson@mail.dec.com>]

B.Rumary wrote:
> 
> > But in the 1914-18 War, reliance on railways contributed greatly to the
> > stagnation on the Western Front. Also, neither the UK nor the US were
> > subject to a land war during the 1939-45 War.

> The Western Front stagnated because they could not find a way of getting through the
> machine guns and wire.

	In part...

> Use of railways had nothing to do with it.

	I suggest that the abilty of railways to deliver the munitions required
	by industrial wars, by rail, right to the big gun line and lighter
muntions
	almost to the front line trenches may well have had something to do
with it.

	best
	dave p