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Old 22nd Sep 2015, 13:22
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Flybiker7000
 
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Rommel lost his major advantage and the opportunity to wipe the Allies out in Africa, simply because the Germans did not understand the importance of logistics and the need to keep up the required level of vital supplies and spares for mechanised forces. .......
No doubt the Desert Fox was furious over the lack of support that saw his advance stalled for such a basic requirement.
I think that Rommel himself was ranking high enough to be responsible for the planning of logistics, and that he otherwise should be blamed for advancing beyond the reach of logistics and the northafrican stock of spares and suplies.
And basically it wasn't probably the planning and production, but merely the transportation (across the Mediterranian) that became decimated by the allied forces :-/
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