Originally Posted by lookout123

Marichiko - any time you take green troops with only basic combat skills and align them against a bloodied but experienced opponent there will be some mistakes made at a tactical level. so what is your point? what should Pershing have done? i don't want a hindsight view of things - this was real war, real bullets, real time. you never know exactly what your opponent has, is thinking, is doing - you only have what you think they have, are thinking, are doing.

so with that backdrop - what better way did Pershing have to end the war?

and BTW - citing foreign military command's opinions of American leadership strengths and weaknesses is not exactly flawless. i seem to remember quotes from British officers complaining about the American's absolute ignorance of the proper use of infantry. that may have been during the revolutionary war.