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PRINCIPLES OF WAR

Five days after the D-Day invasion, troops immediately
began installing two massive temporary harbours that had
taken six months to construct back in England. All told, the
Allies unloaded approximately 2,500,000 men, 500,000
vehicles and 4,000,000 tons of supplies at the temporary
harbours over the remaining course of the war. The total
Allied losses at Normandy are estimated to be at least
4413 and total Allied deaths in the Battle of Normandy,
which dragged on until August, topped 226,000. But with
the concentration of forces and massive influx of troops
and equipment, D-Day marked a decisive turning point in
the war.

Economy of Effort

Economy of effort is the prudent allocation and application of resources
to achieve the desired results and needs to be balanced with the other
Principles of War, notably security and sustainability. Economy of effort
acknowledges the need for a degree of redundancy in war time to allow
for attrition, but it is opposed to a wasteful allocation of resources
that does not maximize the contribution of those resources to the
achievement or maintenance of the aim.

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