202410021212 Status: #idea Tags: #war #economics #world_war_1 # The longer war drags on, the more economic it becomes In a war that is waged and won quickly (Germany’s invasion of France in WW2 for example), military strategy and might plays the largest role. There is no time for a richer country to produce more tanks, bullets, and planes to defeat the poorer country. But once the war is stretched out to a longer timescale, economic factors begin to take precedence. This was the downfall of Germany in both WWI and WWII - it failed to achieve the knockout blow it needed in WWI with the failure to defeat France quickly and in WWII with the failure to decimate the British army at Dunkirk before turning its gaze East. In both cases, the war then dragged on for your years, where the combined productive capacity (and population advantage) of the Entente/Allies wore down Germany. --- # References [[The economics of World War I]]