re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

Robert E. Lee wouldn’t have a fucking clue what was going on in Afghanistan even if if he could have been brought back from the dead. Sweet Jesus.

Wait, wasn’t he known for his masterful handling of airmobile and heavy armored units?///

A significant required tactical skill in a commander at the time was to understand the capabilities of weaponry at the time and the be able to calculate whether an attack would arrive at the determined location with sufficient effective forces to achieve a decisive result.

Because of the rapidly changing technologies, particularly due to rifling al lot of the older leaders failed at this mission.

Additionally, the commanders needed to understand the combat capability of the units they had as well as those who opposed them. The Union Army of the Potomac, after two years of combat experience, was finally reaching a level of professional capability and resilience that the Confederate forces had achieved a year earlier.

In Pickett’s Charge, Lee was betting that the Union Army had either run out of reserves or would be unable to redeploy them to the threatened sector in time. He was almost right. By the way, he committed almost every effective unit he had remaining in his Army into that attack.