Even in the (totally fictitious) Red Dawn, the patriots were done in at the end by a lack of logistics, which the enemy was able to use to kill most of them off.

It takes about 600 lbs (minimum) of dried food for a year, for a person. And thats a pretty damned boring diet. Besides food and ammo and water, people need hygiene products, medical supplies, replacement clothing, footwear, socks, and gear, weapons replacement parts, batteries, etc.

Got a plan?

How many people buy an AR for a grand, never zeroed the sights, put another grands worth of superuberhypertactikewl shit on it, and only have two magazines, one of which he got at a hell of a good price at the gunshow - which explains the dent in the body, the kinked spring and the bent follower and duct-taped on floorplate? Or only 50 rounds of ammo? And no food stored?

But they'll be sure to tell you why the $70/oz miracle glop they use to lubricate it is the only thing that will keep it from jamming...cause they heard it from the septic tank guy who's cousins husband is a member of the delta seals...

And when they say "I'll get battlefield pickups" for everything, they better be damned good to survive their first contact, cause thats all the chance they'll get.

Clauswitz said it: "In war, everything is simple..." and it is: Once a squad can employ it's weapons properly, everything else is just putting more and more squads together...and making sure they have the resources (logistics) to be functional. But the rest of Clauswitz' saying was "but even the simple things are difficult".

Amateurs study battles. Generals (successful ones, anyway) study logistics.


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