tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245848993516434751.post203628675738796062..comments2023-04-01T10:38:24.993+01:00Comments on Grand Logistics: The Butt Report 1941Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245848993516434751.post-32956536111830759822018-06-25T19:16:43.293+01:002018-06-25T19:16:43.293+01:00Hello The Raging Tory,
it is good to see you are ...Hello The Raging Tory,<br /><br />it is good to see you are still around.<br />Your blog appears inactive but this blog gets regular traffic from it,is that you?<br /><br />The most surprising thing about the Butt report is that it was largely ignored.<br />There is a reason for that.<br />The lack of tactical air power and the British Army's (and Royal Navy's) lack of control over air power were both due to the same cause.<br />It was the result of the government's policy of strategic bombing.<br /><br />If you believe that the war is going to be won by a strategic bombing campaign then it does not make sense to divert resources in to tactical air power or to put air power assets under the control of the army or navy.<br />Thus the blame for the frequent British defeats may be attributed the man responsible for the government's strategic bombing policy.<br />His name was Winston Spencer Churchill.<br /><br /><br />Grand Logistics.GrandLogisticshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05216594701400296075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4245848993516434751.post-46027747417010295512018-06-10T11:27:23.132+01:002018-06-10T11:27:23.132+01:00Although the Butt Report was no doubt true, it was...Although the Butt Report was no doubt true, it was also politically expedient.<br /><br />Better to blame lack of tactcal airpower, no ones fault, than a utterly useless war office that hadnt improved since Crimea.<br />Better to attribute German success to Tactical Airpower than to a competent command structure capable of fighting a modern and joined up campaign<br /><br />British Tactical airpower would have accomplished little, because there was no mechanism for the British Army to either command them, or to rapidly request them, it was still a case of British Army units making requests, those requests going to headquarters, and hq, possibly, asking the RAF to meet them daily staff briefings.<br />If the RAF deigned to intervene, they would build it in to their operational taskings.<br /><br />TrThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07316335177828136131noreply@blogger.com