Cranes, Patriots and Friends - 04 Recovery Interdiction | The Culminating Point скачать в хорошем качестве

Cranes, Patriots and Friends - 04 Recovery Interdiction | The Culminating Point

"The defender must always look for the moment when the enemy's strength is exhausted... the moment when the scale of victory begins to turn." — Carl von Clausewitz The final phase of the campaign. Having primed the battlefield in the previous engagements, we now move to exploit the Culminating Point of the IJN’s offensive. This is the execution of Recovery Interdiction—the moment where the enemy's logistical constraints become a tactical death sentence. The Commander’s Intent: Systemic Liquidation The intent is to strike the enemy’s Centre of Gravity at its point of maximum vulnerability. Through high-speed manoeuvres and deceptive positioning, we have induced a state of total operational fatigue. The enemy is no longer a cohesive fighting force; they are isolated assets struggling against the friction of their own recovery requirements. Tactical Objectives: Exploitation of Deck Status: A carrier is structurally incapable of defence while its deck is fouled. We have attempted to time our massed strike to coincide with the enemy's mandatory recovery window for their strike groups. Strategic Decoupling: We utilize the fracture in the enemy formation to execute a Mahanian Concentration of force. By isolating the leading elements from the crippled rear, we ensure our weight of shell is uncontested. Logistical Asymmetry: We are weaponising the enemy's fuel state. By attacking when their pilots are at the limit of their endurance, we force the IJN command into an impossible choice: defend the ship and lose the air group, or land the air group and lose the ship. The Strategic Outlook This is the resolution of the doctrine. We have moved the enemy through the stages of deception and friction to arrive at the point of total collapse. The destruction of the IJN carriers within this vacuum is not a matter of luck; it is a mathematical certainty dictated by the laws of war.