Secondly because neither the production chain
nor the training sector nor the lines of
communication of the Axis would have been
able to replace the losses.
It was a question of
time, and Montgomery, who took over from
Auchinleck on August 13, knew this well.
Thus, from the situation of substantial parity
in July 1942, we arrived at an unchallenged
English superiority in October of the same year
that would have ended up immobilizing the Axis
forces depriving them of their notorious
supremacy of maneuver and movement.
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