[WarInEur] RE: breaking through to Minsk

[sgminfo]

I am not saying that attack on the march is right or that it is wrong,
but the process that gives rise to it,
may be based upon a faulty assumption.

Attack on the march may dress the armies with characteristics that, 
surprisingly, they did not actually possess, rather, their commanders 
did, and this is what the games are all about, the whoile       ' 
not_acting_as_General_Muggins', but seeing if we can do better that 
Gamelin, Scipio, Alexander .

When we visit 1944,
the German armies were hamstrung by interferance from the Greatest 
General ever to fill a Corporal's boots,
This is not a criticism, for an untutored mind, this character had a 
most remarkable grasp of military matters, rather an accurate summation 
of his strengths and (inevitable) weaknesses

this half led them up the France 40 route and deliveredthem  to the 
allies at  Falaise,
but could you see Von Runstedt or Rommel allowing that to happen???

DAGC is a classic case, it rests entirely on one man's appreciation, 
against the best professional advice available that it was 'all one 
gigantic bluff'. But we do not drill the Germans in and bolt them in 
place for the desaster to unfurl.

To a significant degree our problems (perceived) are entirely of our own 
making...some asymetry may be needed to solve the 'issue' that we 
ourselves create.


-|steve|-