April 21, 2021
Why World War II’s Massive Amphibious Landings are Dead
It’s not that amphibious landings will never happen again.
by Michael Peck
Here's What You Need to Remember: Tens of thousands of troops storming ashore under heavy enemy fire? If you want to see that, watch Saving Private Ryan.
Even 70 years later, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944—D-Day—is awe-inspiring. The statistics alone boggle the mind. Seven thousand ships, 12,000 aircraft and 160,000 troops. All concentrated on a small slice of the French coast.
It was incredible. It was magnificent. It was terrible.
And it will never happen again.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-world-war-ii%E2%80%99s-massive-amphibious-landings-are-dead-183297
