Dear Folks –

C. Berry wrote:

> The whole trend of military history over the past 700 years or so has been to put a greater emphasis on maneuver.

Yeah, except you have to explain WWI trench warfare.

(Answers:

a)  the high command really didn’t know how to use their modern weapons – they were still fighting the _last_ war

b) the high commands believed in attrition – keep throwing in more troop, especially the colonials (British attitude), and as long as you kill more of them than they do of us, we’ll win in the end.

In was Monash who came up with combined ops – artillery, bombers, tanks, infantry – who brought back maneuver.

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