Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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Caucasus/Stalingrad campaign, you have Army Group B and Army Group A. And once they came down, their initial intent was to go on and mask off Stalingrad and conquer the Caucasus.
But then of course you know what happened, Hitler said we’ve got to take Stalingrad, because it was named after Stalin and that, figured would act as a moral victory for him over Stalin. So then he used his strength to go against Stalingrad, and you know what happened, instead of going strength against weakness, he started going strength against strength. And blew his panzers away and everything else, and eventually lost it. Really screwed up the operation.
But once again they trying to do the multiple thrusts, but then later on, they couldn’t penetrate and they kept pounding away, just kept pounding away. So they’re violating their own philosophy of going strength against weakness, and they paid the price. Because he was obsessed with taking Stalingrad. The obsession.