Comments by "Mar" (@swunt10) on "New Zealand's Final Stand | Operation Crusader WW2 Part 13" video.

you people sound like armchair generals. "if rommel had just destroyed the british armour he could have destroyed the rest of the infantry and armour". yes great. so you people are basically saying "if he had destroyed everyone, he would have destroyed everyone" but as you can see in what really happened every engagement is a fight on it's own. tanks against infantry is just as difficult as tanks against tanks. rommel started out with a numerical disadvantage (that he could locally turn in his favour sometimes), not nearly enough supplies, no reinforcements. sitting on your arse and fighting a 1 front war going head to head is hardly advisable in such a situation. also in warfare most casualties are caused by bringing the enemy to give up and surrender or head over heels retreat. fighting and killing everyone, men by men, just doesn't work. for what little chance he had with his resources and weak allies, he did amazingly well. if he had managed to bring the allies to a head over heels retreat by his drive to the wire he would have won, sitting at the choke point of the retreat, taking prisoners and materiel and leaving the slow italians to bring up the rear. it was a gamble and it nearly worked. but even after it failed it still doesn't look too bad for him and he can fight another day. not bad after all.
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