Rommel speaks

[Steel God]

at the operational level or the strategic level, his inconsistency would work against him in a BIG way.

Give us some examples of Rommels goofs..;)

Here are two of his largest:

His "counter-attack" after Operation Crusader referred to as the "Dash for the Wire" was borne of his over estimation of the damages he had inflicted, against the estimates of his own staff, and would have only worked if the British simply panicked and routed. His forces were inadequate for the tasks he set for it, and his decision to lead the attack personally let the real battle area around Tobruk and Bardia for the British to consolidate while he shot up a few supply columns before the Axis were forced to withdraw, ultimately all the way back to El Aghelia.

The other was the whole chain of events leading up to the El Alamein debacle. The North African theater for the Axis was never about anything more than trucks and gas. The simple reality of the laws of supply and demand dictated that unless they could push more supply into Libya than they were, and manage to get more of it forward than they did, the Axis leash was NEVER going to reach to the Nile Delta. Despite all the advice against it from OKH, Commando Supremo, and his immediate boss Kesselring, Rommel pushes on into Egypt after the fall of Tobruk when the ONLY real chance would have been the neutralization and capture of Malta, without which, they could have pushed 10 panzer divisions into Libya and not altered the odds of the Germans capturing Egypt. It was his failure to grasp and accept when any Major in supply could have explained to him, that doomed Rommel in Egypt, and why I think he should be rated as no higher than gifted but inconsistent field commander.