JoeB131
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You are absolutely wrong. Let’s use events in history where the people knew or did not know the lessons from Forrest.
The Russians at Tannenberg. World War One. The Russians managed to turn the attack and the Germans withdrew. Failing to learn the lessons of Forrest they did not “Keep up the Skeer”. They did not maintain pressure and turn the withdrawal into a route. It may not have saved the Russians. It certainly did not help.
Uh, the Russians LOST at Tannenberg. It was an unmitigated disaster for them.
Same war. The Germans maintained an aggressive pursuit behind the British and French. By maintaining this pressure they did not allow the French and British to regroup or reinforce until they reached the Marne River. As a result the entire war for the Western Front would be fought in France. Reducing the damage to German Infrastructure and communities.
Uh, no. The western front bogged down into years of pointless Trench Warfare, Cavalry was eliminated by machine guns, and Germany lost... bigly.
Shall I continue? We have Calvary Units now. The tactics taken from among others Forrest are part of the SOP. By studying the battles back in antiquity we learn why the rules we follow matter. So that we learn and when the pressure is on we do not make the mistakes that doomed units in the past.
Hey, when we've LEARNED something, it will be to stop having old men find things for young men to die needlessly for.
During his career a Military Leader will read a lot of books. He will study battles. How they unfolded. How they were won or lost. He will study racists like Forrest. Sun Tzu. And more than I can name in a brief post. They will study barbaric civilizations like the Spartans to understand the battle of Thermopylae.
Um, yeah, Forrest was still an evil racist piece of shit.
Robert E. Lee was a brilliant General. He won battles the Union should have won. General Longstreet showed how defensive firepower and entrenched infantry were a major force that was hard to overcome.
Lee wasn't brilliant in so much as McClellan was incompetent.
General Jim Gavin was the commander during the Bridge To Far debacle of World War Two. 82nd Airborne. The military was segregated in those days. So we can’t honor him. He was a part of the Segregation Era. And if he made General a full throated supporter of it.
We weren't fighting WWII to maintain segregation...
Sherman as I posted above committed a massacre of Black Civilians. We can’t honor him.
Grant authorized and ordered Sherman to carry out the planned brutal march through Georgia and would not hear of disciplining him. We can’t honor Grant.
Sure we can. Besides the fact that the March on Georgia wasn't that bad, (even though the Bubba Rednecks still can't stop whining about it, nothing worse than white people mildly inconvenienced.)
The problem with the Civil War is that we've let the South think they were "noble". They weren't. They sent thousand of young men into needless death so a few rich assholes could keep owning other people. We should have hanged Forrest for his war crimes at Ft. Pillow long before he ever got to start the Klan.