It's the boring stuff that wins wars

Logistics is everything.

I’ve been freebasing history podcasts lately, and two of the best - We Have Ways of Making You Talk and The Rest is History - recently featured very interesting episodes about the planning and logistics for Operation Barbarossa. One of them actually starts with a tongue-in-cheek introduction, superficially comparing it to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as you might expect from a hack headline writer or Substacker. (Cough)

And then comes this piece in the Daily Mail which does just that:

That said, the similarities are quite striking:

The Russian president has always been security conscious, but today, on the losing side of his ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine for which he has only himself to blame, Putin is more paranoid than ever.

He rarely ventures even into his office at the Kremlin now, preferring to do business from his grand, yellow-painted, pillared mansion on his summer estate, Novo-Ogaryovo, in an exclusive suburb popular with rock stars and oligarchs just west of Mosco…