The "Fall X" - The Conquest of West-Berlin

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Attackers frequently "missunderestimate" the will to resist and overestimate their own ability to overrun.

In the forest of Bastogne, there were no 2 million civilians present. Nor had the Wehrmacht the intel like the NVA had on Berlin, or the superiority in air and ground firepower. Undisputed supply. decades of learning the enemy.

What I mean is: it does not compare, in no way. Not even the weather. Comparing any modern war to WWII does not make too much sense. It was tried with Iraq and Afghanistan, too. And again, such a comparison did not and does not work. but it is a trap military thinling time and again falls into: if it worked in the past war, then it necessarily works in the next war, too: the enemy does not learn, and the conditions do not change. the traditionalism of the military in this regard often tends to turn against it.