 High attrition and reduced training time for pilots were the cause.In a belated effort to equalise the balance of power on the battlefield, Jeschonnek and his operations staff officer, Rudolf Meister, were the prime movers in attacks on industrial sectors although the army may have taken the opportunity to pressure the OKL into bombing tank factories, prior to Citadel.In mid-1943, the General Staff came to the conclusion that the employment of dwindling German air power in support of the army was unlikely to yield strategic results.