So, D-Day wasn’t necessary to establish a presence on the European mainland?
A forward base is an already established forward fighting position.
You fight your war without one that you have to establish yourself, and I’ll fight my war with forward troops already established, and we’ll see who gets farther, faster, with less loss of life and less delay.
Don’t you think it was beneficial having Kuwait offer itself as a forward staging area rather than having to fight our way onshore?
“I’ll fight my war with forward troops already established, and we’ll see who gets farther, faster, with less loss of life and less delay.”
If you think we have ever had enough troops to stop an invasion of an ally you don’t know the history of such affairs.
“A forward base is an already established forward fighting position.”
Which get run over and slaughtered for what reason? We have never had enough troops overseas to stop an invasion and that includes the troops in Germany and South Korea.