And speaking of history- One Fubar in the great movie "Patton" 1970 starring George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. VMI and West Point-- after he defeated the Afrika Korps Panzers at El Quatar-- he was shown saying "Rommel, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book"-- Der Tank in Kampf-- The Tank in Battle. Not quite right, it was written by Gen. Hans Guedarian in 1933-Rommel's C.O. and an equal in strategy and command presence to Patton.

The German Blitzkreig was an amazing war process, but it had two major flaws that cost it final victory for Hitler- (1) You outrun your supply chain quickly, and (2) your communications link is stretched to the breaking point.

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..