How The War Was Won: Air-sea Power And Allied V... -

: Reviewers from The University of Chicago Press and Cambridge University Press describe the work as "compelling" and "cliché-busting" for its data-driven approach to economic and industrial warfare.

Instead, O'Brien argues that the war was a global struggle for air and sea supremacy, won through production, technology, and the systematic destruction of Axis equipment before it ever reached the "battlefield". Core Arguments How the War was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied V...

: Attacking equipment while it was in transit to the front lines. Reception and Perspectives : Reviewers from The University of Chicago Press

In , Phillips Payson O'Brien presents a revisionist history that challenges the idea that massive land battles like Stalingrad or Kursk were the primary drivers of Allied victory. Reception and Perspectives In , Phillips Payson O'Brien

: 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 destroyed over 50% of Axis military equipment during pre-production, production, and transit phases.