The Home Guard's proposed measure of victory is the time and resources taken from an invader. The comparison with the United States and North Vietnam illustrates how opposing definitions of victory can change the use of forces and supplies. Buried stores around familiar local ground would let Home Guard units operate without the mobile supply train the Germans needed. German tanks and artillery would be able to fight through positions, but deploying them repeatedly would slow movement and consume resources. Even a lost local battle could buy time for the Royal Navy to cut resupply and for British regulars to counterattack. Success in this plan could therefore come at the cost of the defenders' lives, a severe human cost explicitly acknowledged alongside the judgment that it would be effective.
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Buried stores let the Home Guard fight for delay
Dispersed local stores freed Home Guard units from a mobile supply train, while their definition of victory was the time and resources taken from an invasion before naval interdiction closed the route behind it.