It may be asked why questions of political, economic, and 
 
psychological information are included in a section entitled
 
"Overall estimate of military situation". These factors so
 
intimately affect military activities and prospects that it
 
would be dangerous to appraise the military situation without
 
taking them into account.
 
         The foregoing paragraph explains  not only how and why we
 
are uninformed but by inference many of the ways in which we
 
are misinformed. There are still other ways in which we are
 
misinformed as to the military situation. It has been stated
 
that we are giving all material aid to the partisans that is
 
possible in view of the bottle-neck in transportation. This
 
is not true. There are five specific ways in which our exist-
 
ing number of plans could sizeably increase the amount of help
 
they bring. Thsse ways are:
 
     1. Better planning
 
     2. Better packing
 
     3. Better dispatching
 
     4.  Better receiving
 
     5. Better control of distribution
 
These things cannot always be expressed statistically, but even
 
so I would venture a guess that we would be no less than 50%
 
more effective in supplying material damaging to the enemy by
 
concentrating on these five points. Our analysis of the
 
military situation has been incorrect to the extent that we may