Interesting that the best German commander was able to attack the worst American commander. I wonder if this was completely an accident of terrain? It certainly would have been the choice of locus even with less favorable terrain had Rommel had any intelligence on Fredendall.
Perhaps the best thing the US Army got out of the North Africa campaign was the exposure of weak commanders. Just imagine - had Fredendall not floundered in North Africa, he might have commanded US troops in the cross-Channel invasion.