Kasserine was a near run thing. Rommel came dangerously close to getting behind our Tunisian forces.
Close but no cigar. Which is why I am now puzzled as to why Kasserine is generally considered a defeat for United States forces. Sure, they were pushed back and took a lot of casualties and lost a lot of equipment, but the Germans failed to achieve their objective of driving the allies out of Tunisia by taking Tebessa. Today's headline shows that we are about where we started less than two weeks ago.