First off let me state I get the need to stay one step ahead of the enemy and never surrender the freedom of action and initiative.
Now on to the unabashed air force rules ground force drools (with the snide comments about ground commanders meant to look like compliments) hit piece.
So Pope John re-invented the wheel. Guess what See-decide-attack~ Hartman 352 confirmed kills
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They went where they were least expected, where their presence threw the enemy commanders into a paralysis of confusion and fear. Gen. Tommy Franks, that old-school artilleryman who had taken in firepower and attrition with his mother’s milk, put on a show of precision fingertip control that will be studied throughout history. He got inside their decision loop.
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Patton designed the armor patch in WW1 tracks for mobility, cannon for firepower, and lightning bolts for the shock those two induce when situations like Cambrai, Cobra, Barbarrossa, and Desert Storm demonstrate when tanks are used effectively.
MacArthur at Inchon, Patton in North Africa, Ike at Bastonge, Swarchzkopf in 91 so on and so forth Army commanders no the need to be the one shaping the battlefield- not being shaped by it.
I dare say the Army and America owes more to the legacy of Abrams and his ideas than to a fighter jock- any fighter jock. So the USAF forgot about need for dogfighting skills before Vietnam. The Army on the other hand never forget the need for agility. Even when LBJ was micro-managing the war from Washington via a crony Westmorland the Army itself was using vertical envelopment, fire, communications, and logistics to win every fight they fought and every fight they were allowed to fight. An army geared for combat in Europe went to the jungle and won militarily.