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James Holland

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4177 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

You have another block in kind of...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And the Brittany coast and you have another block in around Sudan and you have another that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So consequently, they're never able to kind of bring their full strength to bear.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So it's, although, although they've both got about three and a half thousand aircraft on paper and about two and a half thousand that are fit to fly on any one given day, um, The Luftwaffe, because they're the aggressor, can choose how they mass their aircraft and where they attack and at when.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So it's, although, although they've both got about three and a half thousand aircraft on paper and about two and a half thousand that are fit to fly on any one given day, um, The Luftwaffe, because they're the aggressor, can choose how they mass their aircraft and where they attack and at when.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So it's, although, although they've both got about three and a half thousand aircraft on paper and about two and a half thousand that are fit to fly on any one given day, um, The Luftwaffe, because they're the aggressor, can choose how they mass their aircraft and where they attack and at when.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So although they've both got about three and a half thousand aircraft on paper and about two and a half thousand that are fit to fly on any one given day.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

The Luftwaffe, because they're the aggressor, can choose how they mass their aircraft and where they attack and at when.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So in other words, the Luftwaffe can send over overwhelming amounts of bombers and fighter planes and pulverize a French airfield and catch them napping. Because the French don't have a defense system, they can't see whether they're coming. So their only hope is to kind of take off and just hope they stooge around the sky and hope they bump into some Luftwaffe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So in other words, the Luftwaffe can send over overwhelming amounts of bombers and fighter planes and pulverize a French airfield and catch them napping. Because the French don't have a defense system, they can't see whether they're coming. So their only hope is to kind of take off and just hope they stooge around the sky and hope they bump into some Luftwaffe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So in other words, the Luftwaffe can send over overwhelming amounts of bombers and fighter planes and pulverize a French airfield and catch them napping. Because the French don't have a defense system, they can't see whether they're coming. So their only hope is to kind of take off and just hope they stooge around the sky and hope they bump into some Luftwaffe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So in other words, the Luftwaffe can send over overwhelming amounts of bombers and fighter planes and pulverize a French airfield and catch them napping.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

Because the French don't have a defense system, they can't see whether they're coming.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

So their only hope is to kind of take off and just hope they stooge around the sky and hope they bump into some Luftwaffe.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And of course, that's inherently inefficient and they get destroyed. They get destroyed in penny packets rather than en masse. difference with the RAF is the RAF is not done on an Air Force basis where you have each air corps or air fleet has a handful of bombers, a handful of fighters, a handful of reconnaissance planes. They have different commands.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And of course, that's inherently inefficient and they get destroyed. They get destroyed in penny packets rather than en masse. difference with the RAF is the RAF is not done on an Air Force basis where you have each air corps or air fleet has a handful of bombers, a handful of fighters, a handful of reconnaissance planes. They have different commands.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And of course, that's inherently inefficient and they get destroyed. They get destroyed in penny packets rather than en masse. difference with the RAF is the RAF is not done on an Air Force basis where you have each air corps or air fleet has a handful of bombers, a handful of fighters, a handful of reconnaissance planes. They have different commands.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

And of course, that's inherently inefficient and they get destroyed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

They get destroyed in penny packets rather than en masse.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#470 โ€“ James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles

difference with the RAF is the RAF is not done on an Air Force basis where you have each air corps or air fleet has a handful of bombers, a handful of fighters, a handful of reconnaissance planes.