rommel

Rommel's Afrika Korps was also defeated by Enigma, because Rommel also refused to believe it was cracked.

He also wrote respected volumes on the world wars and biographies of Rommel and Scipio Africanus, among others.

Six Day War, Gulf War 1, even Rommel virtually conquering France with a single armoured division).

A good substitute is The Rommel Papers, which was published posthumously by his family.

Eventually Rommel was convinced that there was a security leak in the Italians.

The results are not always positive - for example Rommel's offensive in Africa originally succeeded because Enigma intercepts indicated that he had been told to sit tight, but Rommel decided by himself to launch an offensive.

Oh sure Alexander the Great or Caesar or Rommel could have done 10:1 ratio of body bags, but there aren't many military commanders like that.

Not everyone can be Irwin Rommel or Laurence of Arabia.

Ike invaded North Africa, and Rommel went back to Germany.

Bear in mind that the US had not entered the war and England's collapse seemed inevitable (and if Rommel had taken the Suez that would have been it for Britain).

(ie, it won't tell us that Rommel will be approaching Cairo at such-and-such a date.) Information via espionage can be filtered down as if it were from other intelligence sources, or even guessing.

In Tunisia, Ike did that after Kasserine and the other battles in the Tunisian campaign, and soon Rommel was permanently back in Berlin, and the Allies had captured about 300,000 Axis soldiers and driven the Axis out of North Africa, from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, to Egypt and the Suez Canal.

Rejecting this is like the whole "clean Wehrmacht" thing or how Rommel was a "good general" since he wasn't in Europe.

Patton - "Rommel, you magnificent bastard!

I wouldn't deny a Nazi deep thinker the title "philosopher" any more than I'd deny Erwin Rommel the title "great strategist."

Ignore the man behind the curtain at bletchly park, whats going on is all this crypto comms clerk working for Rommel who we're paying off, oh and about ten other guys including of course Hitlers mustache comber..." This is aside from the rather blindingly obvious solution of keep her busy...

Would you oppose the failed British WW2 plan to assassinate Erwin Rommel, or the plan to assassinate Hitler?

England broke the German code, and, thus, much of Rommel's supplies went to the bottom of the Med.

Oh yeah, that crypto clerk who works for Rommel, he's got a huge swiss bank account.