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Success in Fluidity? All this suggested that the Germans on the southern front had been forced to go over (as Rommel did when he left El Alamein) from rigid to elastic defense. They had been forced to do so because of the Russian mastery of winter tactics and because of their own fear of encirclement...
Elastic defense can be masterful, as Rommel's retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
...Your prime and main duty will be to take or destroy at the earliest opportunity the German-Italian army commanded by Rommel," Winston Churchill last summer informed General Sir Harold Alexander, his Commander in the Middle East...
...They had not been literally fulfilled. Rommel's army still exists...
...veteran troops defending the last Axis-held corner of North Africa jabbed out furiously last week and cracked the Allied ring. Panzer divisions, probably some of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, surged against inexperienced artillery and U.S. armored troops holding the westward end of Fai'd Pass (see map). Despite ceaseless rains which have impeded Allied operations, more than 100 Axis tanks with dive-bomber support broke the U.S. line, split into two columns and advanced northwest toward Sidi bou Zid and south toward Gafsa...