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Rear echelon elements are soldiers too, and sometimes they have to fight their way through to the tip of the spear until gains can be consolidated and the LOCs fully secured. Which is exactly what we did.
In order to have done a conquer in detail sort of campaign while still maintaining the same rate of advance they'd have needed 400,000 troops(at least).
To have tried a conquer in detail campaign with the forces he did have would've taken as much as 10x longer than the initial campaign did.
Now, think about the hysteria of the press.......then mulitply that by a campaign that took 10x longer.
It would've been an absolutel PR disaster.
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