: He posits that air and sea power destroyed over 50% of Axis military equipment during pre-production, production, and transit phases.
: Some historians, such as those on WW2Talk , argue that O'Brien underestimates the psychological and physical necessity of land armies to actually "kill the will" of the enemy and occupy territory. How the War was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied V...
: O'Brien defines the true conflict as a thousand-mile-long air-sea "super-battlefield" where the Allies used their industrial might to inhibit Axis movement. : He posits that air and sea power