Describing war to an American
No, wait, seriously. Wasn't there some real conflict where America was running ice cream to the men on the front lines, and it fucked with the morale of the other side, or even intimidated them by having a supply chain so robust it supplied luxuries?
WW2 Pacific theater, there was different ways of doing it.
Had the refrigerated barge for one,
then we had bomber ice cream.
Source they linked for that here
And another
Take one Corsair, 5 ammo cans, canned milk and circle at 33,000 feet.
I remember reading accounts from German soldiers from WWII, on, "When did you know that Germany was going to lose?" One soldier recounted how he found a dead American soldier after D-Day, and went through his things, and saw that this enlisted man had coffee, chocolate, and cigarettes on him; in the German army, those were luxuries, only afforded to the officers. But if just your average American soldier had that...
I passed on including this in the ice cream bit, but it fits with that comment, which I remember reading at one point as well.
One documentary I watched had someone quoting Napoleon I think it was at one point, short version of the quite was something along the lines of.
'wars are won or lost through logistics'
Can't feed or arm the troops they might as well not be there,
Which reminds me of another German soldier's story: During D-Day, he was sent to spy on the American landing force, to see how many horses and veterinarians they had, to determine their logistical capabilities. Only to discover that the Americans had no horses or veterinarians; their entire army was mechanized. And that's when this particular soldier realized that Germany didn't have a chance.
There's a story of a German guard for a POW camp who knew that the war was lost whenever a POW's family sent him a whole cake with frosting to him.





















