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Jump back to quoted post25 Mar 2015, 16:47 PMSwonVIP

or the RTS genre will die or be overrun by moba stuff...

Jump back to quoted post19 Mar 2015, 17:35 PMStafkeh

What is the source? Some random dude is posting it on the official forums and its a leak?
Where does he have his information from?

Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2015, 17:17 PMAvNY

It isn't about incompetence but about focus.

The US has always had at it's core a very competent and well trained officer corps. But until 1945 it's response to any war was "it's over, let's go home and stop spending money on all this." After the Civil war the Army went from having a huge portion of the populace under arms to having a total of 10 active regiments who were not always at full strength or readiness.

Even after 1945 they figured there was so much material and once-trained personnel around that they could put it all back together competently in no time. Task Force Smith showed the fallacy of that plan/dream.

As to having the "wrong" doctrines, that is pretty much true to some degree or another of every army that went to war in '39, including the Germans. Theirs just happened to be better in '39 than that of others, and they had the opportunity to refine it and to "train" in more real conditions (Poland, France). But they still went into Barborossa with infantry divisions that were not fast enough to support panzers, anti-tank tanks, or a logistic arm that could support long term conflicts.

On the other hand, the US strategic doctrine was superior. I can't think of a single significant weapons system whose design was started after the US entered the war.

Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2015, 17:59 PMAlexzandvar

The US officer corp was a mixed bag like every other officer corp out there. You had good thinkers like Eisenhower and total morons like Patton who couldn't fight a war to save their own ass.

Ultimately the US did modernize fairly quickly and the USAAF as well as the Naval Air component were very well lead and saw a lot of advancements throughout the war, but in many places the army had be dragged kicking and streaming into the modern age, thankfully it finally go there thanks to people like Marshall.