Notable Point · 8:28-9:27

German training and staff work, with a caveat about Rommel

The assessment credits German training and competent staff work, then places its criticism of Rommel's attitude to logistics on another battlefield.

Notes

This reading of German performance credits capability, training and drill, while rejecting claims of exceptional strategic genius. German forces avoided many mistakes and benefited from competent staff officers when their commanders allowed them to work. Such officers are judged to have been few and far between. Rommel is criticised for treating logistics as someone else's responsibility, but the aside explicitly concerns another battlefield outside the campaign under review.