“...Combat power exists in two forms, ground-gaining power and support for the ground-gaining forces. ...”
Chainmail must regard the First World War as a screaming success, then.
The “everything must serve the infantry” attitude went out of date some 2350 years ago. Or earlier, perhaps: about the time when humans began building boats strong and tight enough to survive a little longer than was needed to execute river crossing.
How reassuring, to be told we needn’t bother spending money on ships, aircraft, radio, radar, spacecraft, cyberwar, drones, whatnot. Heck, why not just go back to smoothbore flintlocks? No, we have no choice. We must go back to throwing rocks; even the armament of 200 years ago required some rudiments of the military industrial complex.
A very odd response but I guess that shouldn’t be surprising. Not exactly a graduate of the Command And Staff College, are you?