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Originally Posted by Stealhead
More like both Tactics and logistics win wars without one you cant have the other really.Both are of equal importance.
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For winning wars, logistics trumps tactics, IMHO.
An army with adequate tactics, and superior logistics can beat the tar out of one with superior tactics and inferior logistics.
It's important to note that historically, there is evidence of many excellent (tactically) armies with terrible logistical support, and they always lose. Any army with excellent logistics seems to invariably have at the very least adequate tactics. I don't think you can be disciplined enough to have excellent logistics without having basic competence in the other military skills.
Tactics in effect requires a handful of bright minds at the top, logistics is systemic, you either have it or you don't. So you can drop an Alexander in a **** army, and win a battle, but you'd be hard pressed to win any war with crappy logistics.
As an excercise, name a war won by a force with great tactics, but crappy logistics.