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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Comparing costs without comparing ability to pay, ignoring that those costs need not have happened at all and letting others do the thinking are fatal errors which do nothing to support your claim that my positions are "laughable."
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The paper does indeed compare the ability of the combatants to pay the cost of the Battle of the Atlantic. While the Allies outspent the Germans in the Battle of the Atlantic 10:1, their overall production was only 4:1. Thus as a fraction of their productive capacity, the Allies spent 2.5 times more than Germany on the Battle of the Atlantic.
Yet the German war machine was totally outmatched in a Total War. Their chief advantage was in quick, overwhelming victory, and a campaign of attrition played to their weakness. Thus a U-boat fleet hampered their war aims by distracting them from more winnable theaters