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Originally Posted by fruitbat
Also heard of El Alemain. National pride has nothing to do with it.
Not going to dispute market garden was a failure because in patently was, but not going to conveniently ignore what came before as you have subjectively done yet again with your wealth of knowledge on military history.
No general is perfect, Rommel whoever, all have successes and failures, given enough time in command.
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well... El-Alamein was his victory, but an easy one, considering he was running against an exhausted and over-stretched Afrikakorps and Italian Army, both without supplies and significant air support by the end of the North African campaign, and fighting against an enemy who had bigger numbers in terms of troops and logistic support. Everything else after that was a total failure (Sicily/Anzio landings, D-Day/Caen, Market-Garden).
Perfection doesn't belong to human being, let alone Generals, but the balance between success and failure makes the difference between the legendary good and bad ones.. and remaining on the WW2 theme, I'm sure you heard about Patton.. that was a General.
02-07-2012, 11:31 PM
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