Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships
by arethuza on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @03:25AM
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In the Battle of France in WW2 some German commanders (pretty sure it was either Rommel or Guderian) would regularly have radio "problems" isolating them from their HQs when they found tactical opportunities they wanted to exploit.
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Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships
by digi_owl on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @04:12AM
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Supposedly the British Commandos were in part formed so that the generals could get Churchill off their back.
This while over at the German side Hitler would increasingly micromanage as the war dragged on.
Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships
by pault on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @07:43AM
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You could make the argument that WW2 would have turned out very differently if Hitler hadn't been allowed to meddle with operations on the eastern front (e.g. calling a position "fortified" and forbidding retreat, which led to horrific casualties and usually ended up with the generals disobeying orders and retreating anyway, so the result was often the worst of both outcomes). Germany was broken by Stalin and Hitler before the Allies even hit the beaches.