Comments on: Decision at Strasbourg: DECISION AT STRASBOURG Ike’s Strategic Mistake to Halt the Sixth Army Group at the Rhine in 1944 by David P. Colley http://blog.usni.org/2009/11/24/decision-at-strasbourg-decision-at-strasbourg-ikes-strategic-mistake-to-halt-the-sixth-army-group-at-the-rhine-in-1944-by-david-p-colley/ The Naval Institute’s taken its independent forum to a new level - with you in the middle of it. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike M. http://blog.usni.org/2009/11/24/decision-at-strasbourg-decision-at-strasbourg-ikes-strategic-mistake-to-halt-the-sixth-army-group-at-the-rhine-in-1944-by-david-p-colley/comment-page-1/#comment-175153 Mike M. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:56:17 +0000 http://blog.usni.org/?p=4546#comment-175153 This is news to me - but, I am sorry to say, not surprising. The brutal fact is that Eisenhower was far more concerned with making sure that the Britsh got their quota of victories than with a fast defeat of the Germans. Ike was trying for a broad, gradual, World War I-like advance...instead of funneling resources to those commanders in a position to strike deep into the enemy rear. The obstruction of Patton's efforts to close the Falaise gap, the direction of 3rd Army to relieve Bastogne directly instead of cutting off the entire German force in the Ardennes offensive, and now this all prove an old adage... The best German general in World War II was Eisenhower. This is news to me – but, I am sorry to say, not surprising.

The brutal fact is that Eisenhower was far more concerned with making sure that the Britsh got their quota of victories than with a fast defeat of the Germans. Ike was trying for a broad, gradual, World War I-like advance…instead of funneling resources to those commanders in a position to strike deep into the enemy rear. The obstruction of Patton’s efforts to close the Falaise gap, the direction of 3rd Army to relieve Bastogne directly instead of cutting off the entire German force in the Ardennes offensive, and now this all prove an old adage…

The best German general in World War II was Eisenhower.

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