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Funny that you use this analogue, because the main reason why Napoleon Grand Army was annihilated in Russia is exactly logistic. Their supply chain get overstretched near Smolensk, and completely collapsed by Borodino. In fact, it was never ever supposed to hold that far, because Napoleon never prepared for prolonged war with Russia: out of his previous experience, he assumed that Russian army would be advancing in Warsaw Princedom, trying to gain initiative. The decision of de Tolli to reatreat instead, fighting the war of attrition, forced Napoleon to change his plans on the run, and his logistic predictably collapsed under stress.