woah, a revisitor of history !!! I like that, history is one of my “dada”
While complete disaster had been averted, the Battle of Kasserine Pass was a humiliating defeat for US forces. Their first major clash with the Germans, the battle showed an enemy superiority in experience and equipment as well as exposed several flaws in the American command structure and doctrine. After the fight, Rommel dismissed American troops as ineffective and felt they did offer a threat to his command.
Rommel was invincible then, finally Montgomery had him later on, though this was a Churchill’s idea to make the unprepare Americans land first in Maghreb :
Americans were eager to punish Japan as 1942 began, but Roosevelt was persuaded by Churchill that a “Europe first” strategy was the only one that made sense, and it did make a lot of sense- for Churchill. The British were bracing for an amphibious invasion (which, as it turns out, never happened). Churchill needed a distraction to divide Hitler’s attention. He calculated that he could use Americans for just such a purpose! Invading Europe directly with green, American troops was deemed unlikely to succeed, as the British had so unpleasantly discovered with the Dunkirk disaster. So, French North Africa was selected as the site for the War’s first major allied offensive, not because that is where the enemy was, but because that was where the enemy wasn’t! American forces were not ready for an opposed landing.
um, the rifles, the Germans got them, cuz the “vichy” maghrebin troops lead by Gl Giraud, (the future american chosen pawn vs de Gaulle though) had already reversed into allied troops !
http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/vichy/empire.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_French
well, saddam used his biological weapons against the Iranians first, then against his Kurdes… tell me which nukes France provided to Saddam (umm with trusful links, I am impatient to learn more of my country history!)
what do you mean with the Osier ?
