Is it actually that rare to hear military histories avoid discussions of supply lines? It seems very common to me. The phrase "an army marches on its stomach" is in the popular imagination, right?
Even post-WWII, discussions of Vietnam usually talk about the Hồ Chí Minh trail, don't they?
EDIT: Actually, there's a more general question I've been wondering: What is a good way to figure out if something is common knowledge or not? I've occasionally found myself assuming something was common knowledge and while "No feigning surprise"[1] is a useful rule to try to follow, it would be better if I had a way to train my intuition to be more accurate about how well-known facts are.
Is it actually that rare to hear military histories avoid discussions of supply lines? It seems very common to me. The phrase "an army marches on its stomach" is in the popular imagination, right?
Even post-WWII, discussions of Vietnam usually talk about the Hồ Chí Minh trail, don't they?
EDIT: Actually, there's a more general question I've been wondering: What is a good way to figure out if something is common knowledge or not? I've occasionally found myself assuming something was common knowledge and while "No feigning surprise"[1] is a useful rule to try to follow, it would be better if I had a way to train my intuition to be more accurate about how well-known facts are.
[1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/04/27/no-feigning-surprise/, though the rule should be "no acting surprised" because I think the common case of it is an expression of genuine surprise.