[Chainmail]

A superficial and flawed analysis of the battle. No mention of the vital role the Combat Engineers had in blunting the advance of Hitler's armored forces (blowing key bridges in their faces, destroying and channelizing with mines and bazooka and antitank gun fire) and the seizure of critical high ground in the German's path.

Love the gratutitous throwaway at the end "until Vietnam":

1. Korea was the first disappointment in the performance of the American army - the precipitous rout of the Eighth Army when the Chinese Army attacked. And

2. Vietnam was a major display of the courage and flexibility of American forces in the face of a nearly impossible task - protecting South Vietnamese noncombatants while eliminating NVA and VC combatants. Our forces only failed because of a reduction of available effective volunteers and replacing them with substandard draftees (MacNamara's Project 100,000) and active Leftist treason overwhelming support in our home country.

[oldvirginian]

“No mention of the vital role the Combat Engineers had in blunting the advance of Hitler’s armored forces (blowing key bridges in their faces, destroying and channelizing with mines and bazooka and antitank gun fire) and the seizure of critical high ground in the German’s path.”

“Those damned engineers!”
Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler