Tactical skill and luck may decide a short action, but a prolonged war rewards the side able to replace equipment, maintain forces, and absorb losses. American, British, and Canadian shipyards underpin this account of victory in the Pacific and Atlantic. Axis economies lacked the same ability to sustain a long conflict on equal terms. The dependence on short-war strategies such as Blitzkrieg followed from that structural weakness, making continued expansion of the war especially dangerous for the Axis powers.
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Why factories and logistics decide prolonged wars
The shipyards introduce a wider argument that industrial replacement and sustainment outweigh any single battle in a long war.