To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Patton had a reputation for being careless with the lives of his troops. More good guys die in the offense than the defense in war. However, it is the only path to victory.
4 posted on
12/22/2013 10:34:53 AM PST by
xone
To: xone
The attack on Metz was an unnecessary spilling of American blood, wasting men’s lives in a vainglorious show, where, at the end, all that was needed was a 175mm cannon.
5 posted on
12/22/2013 10:48:35 AM PST by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
To: xone
True. No war was ever won through defensive tactics. The European landscape is littered with the bones of shattered defenses going back for centuries. Sooner or later, you’ve got to come out from behind the fortifications and fight.
6 posted on
12/22/2013 10:49:30 AM PST by
PowderMonkey
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To: xone
Patton had a reputation for being careless with the lives of his troops.
It is my understanding that the two generals of WWII with the lowest ratio of casualties to enemy casualties were George Patton and General MacArthur. Sometimes it pays to be aggressive.
12 posted on
12/22/2013 11:56:53 AM PST by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: xone
Another George, McClellan, was careful with the lives of his troops. Careful to the point of complete non-action. And he was soon replaced after dithering endlessly, recognized as the feckless miscast that he was.
Ask the 101st surrounded at Bastogne which one they would have asked for.
20 posted on
12/22/2013 2:50:50 PM PST by
DPMD
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