WWII history and tactics

[BigRed389]

Not sure that captures everything about Admiral Lee, as though he was a whiz in mathematics, he also set a record in the 1920 Olympics by winning 7 medals (5 gold) for marksmanship. All the more astonishing is he suffered from an explosion playing with gunpowder as a kid and suffered burns to his face necessitating glasses for his life. His eyesight was do bad it almost ended his career, yet he finished as Commander, Battleships Pacific Fleet.

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Hence the “weaponized” part.
There are operators, and then there are nerds.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to get people who manage to combine excellence at both.

I don’t think many Flags even today would have the operational vision and technical skill to recognize the potential of a revolutionary new technology, and then learn the physics and theory behind how it works, and develop physics derived experiments to create and validate TTPs. They’d want some staff officer to figure it all out.

 

[Lawman]

Hence the “weaponized” part.
There are operators, and then there are nerds.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to get people who manage to combine excellence at both.

I don’t think many Flags even today would have the operational vision and technical skill to recognize the potential of a revolutionary new technology, and then learn the physics and theory behind how it works, and develop physics derived experiments to create and validate TTPs. They’d want some staff officer to figure it all out.

There is actually some discussion on that with the battles that preceded the employment of the BBs in the slot. Several incidents early in the battle involved commanders who simply didn’t have confidence in radar as a concept much less a tactical acumen for employing it.

Benefits of hindsight not withstanding it’s easy to see who was accepting and who wasn’t of revolutionary technology and that is true still today. We just had a brutally frank discussion with an Armored BCT that didn’t want to adopt tak into their comm structure, and it took another Senior officer making the analogy of saying “F radios…. These flags and drums are just fine” to get them to see the ignorance in that strategy.