The word logistics can hide two different problems. Britain, the United States, and the wider British Empire could draw on most of the materials they needed, but delivery meant convoys, U-boat danger, long routes around Africa, and disruption in the Far East. Rubber, petrol, and aviation fuel show how access still depended on vulnerable transport networks and global geography. Axis powers increasingly faced the more basic problem of obtaining suitable inputs at all and had to search for substitutes. Wartime production depended on both possession of resources and the ability to move them safely to factories and forces.
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Allied delivery problems differed from Axis scarcity
The Allies generally had access to strategic materials but had to move them through threatened sea routes, while Axis states increasingly lacked suitable materials in the first place.