The amount of water in a barrel does not depend on the tallest piece of wood on the barrel wall, but on the shortest piece on the barrel wall.
- Barrel theory
So we have to learn from each other? Sorry, I don't believe it anyway, but it's because of the fish in the wood, especially after a loud slap from "The Distant Bridge".
<h1>The distant bridge in Operation Market Garden</h1>
Poster for the movie "The Bridge Far Away"
Although it is a very old movie, so old that the legendary British agent 007 is still very young (yes, the starring actor in the C position in the picture, the first 007, Sean Connery), but this war is also long gone, isn't it? "Distant Bridge" is about operations in the market garden at the end of this "ancient" war, and the distant bridge that the Allies could not reach until the end...
Stills from "The Distant Bridge", of course, the protagonist of this article is not this bridge, but the next series of transportation hubs and bridges
As a regimental battle in the late stages of World War II, Operation Market Garden, how to say, except for the bridge that the main target of this operation is in the mouth of the assault troop soldiers, but it is out of reach, how to overturn the car? In fact, the plan of operation market garden is very novel and bold, or very German,quite lightning-like: on the one hand, the paratroopers airdrop deep into the hinterland of the German-occupied area to seize important roads and bridges, as a market operation, and the commando troops become a springboard for frog jumping; on the other hand, the commando troops break through the German front line and quickly rush to the locations occupied by the various paratrooper units, as a garden operation, and wear the paratroopers into strings.
British paratroopers during World War II were supposed to be training
It can be seen as a weakened version of the flash operation - because the Allied assault force can not penetrate the opponent like the gods, so the paratroopers complete part of the offensive tasks in advance, and the assault force is only responsible for the breakthrough and pursuit.
<h1>Maybe the bridge is still far away, but the lightning battle is even more out of reach</h1>
However, a meal plan is as fierce as a tiger, and the hands-on operation mmp... At the beginning, the paratroopers fell on the heads of the two German armored divisions due to the lack of Montgomery's intelligence work, and they were unceremoniously destroyed by the formation;
The image describes the failure of this short, the paratroopers have not yet come down, and they do not know how to feel when they see that there are steel monsters under their feet
Secondly, the radio strike led to almost all the airdrop supplies for the paratroopers being donated to the German army free of charge, and the Allied airdrop units instantly became the transport brigade leaders of the German army; and the biggest problem was that the commando troops worked hard to learn the German blitzkrieg concept, and thought that this was all of the Blitzkrieg, but when they really fought, they found an advertising slogan - "Not all armored clusters are lightning troops". In the face of the german second-line assault troops, the results of the breakthrough of the assault units are not enough to see, and in the face of the sudden tank division, it is a collective dud. As a result, the Allies exchanged 1w7 deaths for the defeat of 3,000+ enemies, the abolition of the paratrooper formation and the bankruptcy of Operation Market Garden.
However, from the real review point of view, the plan of the Market Garden Operation is indeed a good plan, if entrusted to the German army, even if there is no paratrooper to pave the way as a springboard, the action may be a wave of direct attack on the yellow dragon, but it is not to say that the Allies are not good, or how can it be pushed to the German nest. Then there is only one explanation: compared to the distant bridge in the mouth of the soldiers, even more distant is the lightning that the Allies cannot learn.
Blitzkrieg, at least, must be this sense of déjà vu! (Of course not...) If you don't randomly shoot a heavy cannon, you can kill five)
Blitzkrieg is indeed a prominent fast word, after breaking through the front line to quickly advance in depth, but this fast word is the endowment of the German armored forces, or this is the innate of the tiger and leopard army, maybe the Allies can also gather a large number of tanks, but can only learn its shape, can not learn its god, why? Because the Allies do not have this endowment, and this is also an unclear endowment, this is the will of the Fuehrer who can judge the situation, the special combat force that can sneak overnight, this is the shock kinetic energy that can be swept up by thousands of troops, and so on.
<h1>This is a not-so-flashy dividing line</h1>
Since the Allies can't learn blitzkrieg, and the market garden action learned is a bit of a tiger not an anti-dog meaning, then why should we stare at learning from each other's strengths and complementing each other's weaknesses, rather than using our strengths and avoiding our weaknesses?
Returning to the barrel principle, there is another derivative version that is easier to understand, that is, the principle of fleet navigation, and the overall speed of the fleet depends on the slowest ship, not the fastest one. Well, I agree with this statement, but I am afraid that this is not a theory, because the fleet speed can not die if it is slower during cruising, but it is really dead without the combination of battleships with strong firepower and heavy armor and flexible and mobile destroyers.
Liaoning Parade Formation - A fleet has large and small ships, and the speed is different, but the speed of the fleet in combat does not depend on the lowest speed, but each performs its own duties and takes its own strengths
There are thousands of reasons for success, it can be clever, it can be persistence, it can be the result of any point of strength being magnified by fate, but there is only one reason for failure, and talent is useless.
So if there is a bridge that looks far away, it is not necessary to learn a more distant set of lightning skills to chase it, only according to their own endowments to develop their own good methods, in order to finally reach the bridge, otherwise it will always be just a distant bridge. And even if the strengths of others supported by endowments are learned by us to be decent, and even in a clever way, as long as others are in the same way, they can still easily and better with endowments, and in the battlefield that needs to be competed for, all this is meaningless.
After all, if effort is useful, what else is genius to do?