"The reason why it is so difficult to fight the American Army is because they never follow their own doctrine."
- A Russian General
"War is Chaos, and the reason why the American Army excels at War is because they practice Chaos on a daily basis."
- a German General
- STORMBRINGER SENDS
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
THE AMERICAN ARMY
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True in my experience. Even if we did arrive in the chaos in 66, trained for fighting Russians, to be dumped into the middle of a country where there were no uniforms, no lines of battle, no order or method to their madness.
At least until we trained ourselves and figured out how to not only fight them but to outsmart them.
Then of course, the brass got in the way, the liberals got involved and various presidents lost sight of victory and the media told us all was lost.
Hellava deal.
Papa Ray
West Texas
They don't need to practice.
They're very good at it.
There was a history program on a year or so ago about the Battle of the Bulge.
In that program, they interviewed surviving members of both the US and German military that had been involved in the fighting.
I remember one German speaking who had been an SS Captain during that battle.
He'd been involved in the fighting in Poland, France and the USSR prior to the bulge. He'd fought against forces from all the allied countries.
He said of the Brits, Russians, French, et al, that once you got their defensive plan figured out, it was relatively easy to pick them apart, since they never varied.
He also said he hated fighting Americans the most, because, for all he and his comrades could discern, there was never any consistency to American defensive plans.
According to him, closing in on an American position was a nightmare. Fire always came from unexpected quarters. The obvious first choices for locations for supporting weapons were never where the supporting weapons were actually located.
He also said that American forces could not be counted on to stay broken once beaten. Individual soldiers, squads, platoons, companies, whatever, would seem to suddenly just get tired of retreating and turn and fight to the death. This German expressed great frustration in fighting Americans.
There is another quote from another German when asked what it was like fighting Americans. Paraphrased it went something like: "I have no idea. Never saw any through all the massive hell storm of artillery they dumped on us every time we got close."
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