Lost Victories (Myth20C - Ep03)

Erich von Manstein was raised in an aristocratic Prussian military family, serving on both the western and eastern fronts in the First World War, was injured, and served the remainder of the war in an administrative role. In the interwar period, Manstein was among a core of mid-level veterans from the first war who secretly built up Germany’s military capability within the confines of the Versailles treaty from the ruins of the Reichswehr. They built a skeleton army heavy with officers, NCOs and high ranking enlisted men so that the structure could be quickly filled with privates when a full-scale mobilization was possible. During WWII this became the infamous Wehrmacht. Manstein is widely regarded as the best grand strategist of the Second World War, certainly on the German side and arguably of the whole war. While Guderian was a great innovator in terms of theory, and Rommel a great leader in his own right, Manstein probably had the highest regard as strategist and overall big-picture military thinker.

https://myth20c.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/lost-victories/

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