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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Defeat of Armies
Summary: Depends on the army
Keywords: Study on defeated armies
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Date: 4 Mar 91 20:57:06 GMT
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From: jtchew@csa2.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Some armies' doctrine and training is superior to others at enabling and
encouraging cut-off elements to keep fighting.  An example is discussed in
the book "Death of a Division" (can't recall author), which goes into the
Wehrmacht idea of a "wanderkessel," a group of isolated troops still doing
their thing.  But we wander into soc.history territory's kessel...

--Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"