Rommel overated?

Rommel was a good, reckless general.  Yes, his bravery warrant him respect, but he was quiet reckless.

Compare him to Napoleon, Nappy wins big time. 

Nappy belongs with the Sun Tzu's, Alexander the Great (or Terrible), Hannibal & Genghis Khan.

 I think Rommel was clearly the best, unlike the other he wasn't from the prussian school of thought, he was from Wurrtemberg. Rommel was very flexible on the battlefield and not rigid like the others. In that aspect he ressembled Napoleon, he was expert in quick analysis and processing of information, and at time act on instinct. I think for that reason he should be considered as exceptional.

 And what make him closer again to Napoleon, Rommel has this code of honour, he has humanity unlike the other NAZI monsters, a sort of chivalry in other word. In other word he got charisma.

Are you kidding me with the English defences?!  Rommel secured those things past what anyone other commander there did with what VERY little he had.  He even convinced the French to help make the defenses by friendly means.  He would tell the French that if the defeces are bad, the allies will destroy that part of the defeses aong with the homes and buildings in that town.  So that motto of the French was "Let the Allies come, but not in my backyard"!  They worked very hard to the very best of anyones ability.  Rommel also scetched everything he wanted done which helped the builders tremedously!

And in fact, the allies were so worried about Rommel being in charge of defeses that they almost stopped the invasion and decided it was a higher priority to either kill of capture him first.  But after Rommel's car accident and run in with a fighter, they decided to continue with the attack.

And besides, if Rommel had actually been allowed to command his troops, the Allies would have been beaten back before they got a landing!  Luckilly Hitler was a moron and killed his best general!

First of all, the list given was a list of  tanks, not supplies.  So the more tanks Rommel received the less supplies he had.  So more tanks is not neccessarily better.

Secondly, Rommel advanced on Egypt because he was ordered to.  And then when his forces were being overwhelmed by vastly overwhelming numbers of enemies with the supplies of the US behind them, Hitler ordered Rommel to fight to the last man.  Thank goodness he didn't!

And once again, Rommel received plenty of reinforcements but those reinforcements came without the neeeded supplies to keep them up and running!

Now if people would just post THEIR OPINION we can all get over what I THINK!!!

The Supplies didn't stop coming, Rommel recived large reinforcements in the form of the 5th Panzer Army which included 10th Panzer-division, 334th Infantry divsion, the Herman Goring division, elite fallschimjaegers of regiemnts Barenthin and Koch as well as the 501st and 502nd Heavy Tank battalions armed with the fearsome Panzer VI "Tiger". The luftwaffe intervende with both combat units and transport units and this was at a time there was a shortage of both fighter and transport aircraft in the units responsible for mantaining the airbridge to Stalingrad.

Rommel had a very good grasp on corps and army level logics; you win beat the enemy before they beat you.  Had Rommel been given more supplies in Africa and more command in France the Axis would have done a lot better.  So I suppose we can give part of the Allies victory to Hitler!

The supply problem was that the command did not send the need supplies.  The High Command told Rommel he would have the neccessary supplies, but they hardly ever sent supplies.  And when they did, the Brits took them out because the Italians did not defend their transports.

Rommel advanced on Egypt because it was an order from Hitler.  Rommel attacked and did what Hitler told him to do even when it went against his better thinking.  When Hitler told him to fight to the last man he did that to the best he could do even though he knew it was the wrong choice.  He did not have as much control as most think.  Had he done what he had planned things would have definatly gone a differnt direction!

The main reason Rommel ran out of supplies was not that the High command didn't send them or that they got sunk, the main problem was none other than Rommel himself who had a poor grasp of corps&army-level lgoistics and consistently chose to undertake operations for which he didn't have the supplies or support necessary. Rommel did not have a professional graps of logistics since he had not served on the German General Staff or recived the necessary education in that area. He simply lacecked the trainign required fro hig elvel command and only his inate skill anda lot of luck made him a successfull commander at the divisional and corps levels. As an Army commander he was only fair and his graps on army group operatiosn was frankly poor.  

The was the main reason for Panzer-armee Afrika gettign caught at El Alamein, rommel advance towards Egypt with insufficent fuel&other supllies hopign to either capture more supplies on the wayor to make the 8th Army collapse.

Once he was halted by the confused fighting durign the 1st battle of El Alamein he didn't have the fuel or vehicles necessary to withdraw and was forced to fight in place.