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**For instance in the beginning of the [[World War 2|Pacific War]]Japan was unquestionably superior in quality(it was also superior in material actually available but more was waiting to come on line for the Allies). They won a number of spectacular victories. In late 1942 through 1943 the odds were even but the Allies were getting better in both quality and quanity. And after that the Allies pretty much had the whip hand.
* In the Strategic Bombing Campaign over Europe in [[World War 2]] the US Eighth Air Force won by finally figuring out that trying to hit a "pinpoint" target from a heavy bomber was like trying to hit a nearby telephone line from a passing subway train by throwing a golf ball while being hit on the head with a golf club (and in any case the bomb was likely to land on some poor schmuck which is one reason they headed for cities where there was a multiplicity of poor schmucks). In any event tactics were changed to make the bombers the bait and provoke as many dogfights as possible on the assumption that Germans would run out of planes and pilots first.
*Subversion. That is not the technical definition of the term reserves. Reserves are units hoarded to bandage a breech in your line or exploit one broken in the enemies. The technical term for "trading casualties until the superior force wins" is attrition, although that is only one context of the term. Thus using your reserves for [[We Have Reserves]] is usually suboptimal although it sometimes cannot be avoided.
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