Re: Lid, Can and Libel: A Tree Falls in Nathan Bedford's Forrest and the Mississippi Department of M
Yeah, while the Rommel/Nazi connection, and all of the loathing that it will viscerally create in the reader toward Forrest is effective, any visit by Erwin Rommel to a Civil War battlefield to study Forrest's tactics likely took place some 50 or more years after Forrest was buried in 1877, and was able to invite, bless, or otherwise endorse Rommel or the Third Reich in any way shape or form. So to try to create some sort of symbiotic connection between the two is disingenuous at best.
To be clear, Forrest by all accounts was a unmitigated void of a human being. His contributions to military tactics, specifically cavalry tactics WERE notable though, and he demonstrated a consistent ability to do more with less, and remain highly mobile; traits that the modern US military learned to prize in its Officers in subsequent conflicts.
So Cole, who are you really taking issue with? The state? It's people? Forrest? Everyone?
Yeah, while the Rommel/Nazi connection, and all of the loathing that it will viscerally create in the reader toward Forrest is effective, any visit by Erwin Rommel to a Civil War battlefield to study Forrest's tactics likely took place some 50 or more years after Forrest was buried in 1877, and was able to invite, bless, or otherwise endorse Rommel or the Third Reich in any way shape or form. So to try to create some sort of symbiotic connection between the two is disingenuous at best.
To be clear, Forrest by all accounts was a unmitigated void of a human being. His contributions to military tactics, specifically cavalry tactics WERE notable though, and he demonstrated a consistent ability to do more with less, and remain highly mobile; traits that the modern US military learned to prize in its Officers in subsequent conflicts.
So Cole, who are you really taking issue with? The state? It's people? Forrest? Everyone?
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