Yep. You design for where you expect to fight. You adapt if you are not fighting where you expected. The Afrika Korps learned that very quickly. So did the Wehrmacht in Russia.
dear 17th,
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“Yep. You design for where you expect to fight. You adapt if you are not fighting where you expected. The Afrika Korps learned that very quickly. So did the Wehrmacht in Russia.”
I agree .... but to think, the Russians/Soviets already WERE in Afghanistan before we were, so ya’s mighta thunk that ‘somebody’ woulda kept the engineer’s pen and ink field notes, for future design considerations, wouldn’cha?