I never understand why folks get so uptight about only having four days worth of munitions for a third world war, which would (in planning) have gone nuclear within 48 hours, and be all over, not just by Christmas, but within seventy two hours.*
So, did any of you (or me) think we would get to use all four days worth of stock, and if so, what part of total or tactical annihilation did not apply to the particular base concerned, or the personnel in it
*At the time. I like millions of others had been sold on the idea that the Soviets wanted to attack at sometime, it was not until recently that I found out the average Russian was more worried about us invading them, and that there forces were to keep me out!
It also does not go un-noticed that the forces of the UK were in some form of conflict in every year of the fifties, sixties and seventies except 1968, and that those conflicts lasted often for some time, and yet we had sufficient stock.