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Originally Posted by Twitch
Exactly. It makes it a moot point without allowing the change of any other factors because that's simply not enough to make any demonstrable difference to change an outcome as big being "successful" in the air war. He stated "the Luftwaffe's strategy" and that was partially thwarted by Hitler, Milch, Himmler, Speer and even Goring to greater or lesser degrees. With those perameters people like Galland, Wever, Kammhuber or Udet could never change "Luftwaffe strategy" to a degree sufficient to make huge differences.
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There you go, you've answered T.A. Gardner's 'what if'.
Using historical realities there was nothing the Luftwaffe could do, to enable them to win the air war they actually found themselves fighting, instead of the short war the Nazi leadership wanted to fight.