An earlier end to the North African campaign could leave more Axis troops available for Greece or the invasion of the Soviet Union. Those campaigns would still depend on the existing railway lines, roads, and supply infrastructure. Extra formations could increase the burden on a system already limited in how much fuel and ammunition it could move. Train spacing and unloading rates could not simply accelerate to meet the additional demand. The argument therefore rejects the assumption that transferring the Afrika Korps elsewhere would automatically produce a corresponding increase in usable fighting strength.
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Extra Axis divisions still face the same supply bottlenecks
Removing the North African campaign releases troops without expanding the railways, roads, and unloading capacity needed to employ them.