1. This is tangential, but I'm always puzzled by the amount of credit people are willing to give to loser generals like Lee & Rommel.
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Tactical vs Strategic genius
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The former is sexy, the latter is how you win
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Would you say the same for the many noble losers who fought for objectively good causes, knowing they would lose?
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Is there any evidence either Lee or Rommel thought as the wars began that they wouldn't win? They enjoyed early success on the battlefield.
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5. Rommel & other Wehrmacht generals knew from start Hitler's wars un-winnable but went along. That's opposite of good military leadership
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In 1939 they thought this? Evidence?
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Don't fight? How is this different from the Vichy argument?
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TheLee's & Rommel's armies were the aggressors. They had a choice where & how they fought. Vichy choice was fight or surrender. Not the same
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General Longstreet?
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Maybe it was stupid to write a book about his tactics just before the biggest war of his life
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