...and another thing...
Just a brief addendum to my previous post about deciding whether combat decisions are definitively the right or best ones...
I recently had a chance to chat with an officer who served as Deputy Commandant of the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College in Kingston in the mid-90's, and we discussed the issue of BGen Fraser's Op Medusa decisions and the recent questioning of those decisions. This fellow told me that he had stood on Juno Beach with a course of officers from the Staff College discussing the assault of June 6th, 1944 with company-commander-level veterans of that fateful and historic attack.
Fifty years later, there was no consensus on the best way to have stormed that beach. And that's for one of the most professionally studied military operations of the last century.
Just sayin'.
By the way, the officer who commanded CLFCSC from 1994 to 1997 has held subsequent positions of higher responsibility. I'd suggest his views on this might well be relevant.
I recently had a chance to chat with an officer who served as Deputy Commandant of the Canadian Land Force Command and Staff College in Kingston in the mid-90's, and we discussed the issue of BGen Fraser's Op Medusa decisions and the recent questioning of those decisions. This fellow told me that he had stood on Juno Beach with a course of officers from the Staff College discussing the assault of June 6th, 1944 with company-commander-level veterans of that fateful and historic attack.
Fifty years later, there was no consensus on the best way to have stormed that beach. And that's for one of the most professionally studied military operations of the last century.
Just sayin'.
By the way, the officer who commanded CLFCSC from 1994 to 1997 has held subsequent positions of higher responsibility. I'd suggest his views on this might well be relevant.
posted by Babbling Brooks at 9:43 a.m.
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