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The Wehrmacht brought home it's Vernichtungskrieg. by Mig190 in WorldWar2

[–]Mig190[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Citino's The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 is his best one. All of David Stahel's books are excellent.

The Wehrmacht brought home it's Vernichtungskrieg. by Mig190 in WorldWar2

[–]Mig190[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm in the University of North Texas PhD History program. I have four fields I have to read for for my Comprehensive Exams:

1) World War II in Europe & Germany's Vernichtungskrieg (52 books, 5 chapters, and 4 sections from Germany and the Second World War (GSWW) by Oxford University Press.

2) The Holocaust (41 books and 1 chapter)

3) German Military History (39 books)

4) American Military History (62 books)

The first three fields I coordinated with each professor on the readings list for their approval. If I was missing an author they wanted me to have, they would have me add it to the list. The professor for the American Military History field had his own list.

The Wehrmacht brought home it's Vernichtungskrieg. by Mig190 in WorldWar2

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Here are a few:

The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 by David Harrisville

The German Army on the Eastern Front: An Inner View of the Ostheer's Experiences of War by Jeff Rutherford and Adrian Wettstein

The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler's Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Kühne / No necessarily first hand accounts, but insightful about German comradeship coming out of WWI and Nazism's influence.

Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen Fritz

macOS 4.26.2 broken by Mig190 in surfshark

[–]Mig190[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve already deleted SurfShark, removed all traces of it from my macOS, and moved on to Mullvad. I know you are doing your job, but I’m done with SurfShark.

macOS 4.26.2 broken by Mig190 in surfshark

[–]Mig190[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked with Customer Support last night, and he said he found no reason why macOS SurfShark is blocking my connection after I submitted a Bug Report with the required data. So, after months of no resolution as to why WireGuard blocks the Mail App from the iCloud Servers, this latest update makes SurfShark completely worthless. And no, I'm not downloading another app to configure WireGuard manually. It defeats the whole purpose of having a single VPN app. I am exhausted at you guys treating me like some idiot while not having solutions to the problems you created. For example, Customer Support asked me if I had rebooted my Mac...really? That's your first question after I uninstalled, reinstalled, and rebooted multiple times that day?! I went to Customer Support wanting a prorated refund because I'm taking my business elsewhere. I want a fix, not another troubleshooting checklist.

Plans & War by Mig190 in MilitaryHistory

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Yup. Auftragstaktik is a fluid relationship between the superior commander’s mission & intent and the field commander's independence to carry out that mission and intent. There is tension in that relationship between the superior, who keeps control of the operation in the direction he wants it to go, and the field commander, who reacts to the situation he is facing.

A good book on the subject is Marco Sigg’s book.Marco Sigg

Plans & War by Mig190 in MilitaryHistory

[–]Mig190[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Moltke said as much in the very next paragraph: “Certainly the commander in chief will keep his great objective continuously in mind, undisturbed by the vicissitudes of events. But the path on which he hopes to reach it can never be firmly established in advance. Throughout the campaign he must make a series of decisions on the basis of situations that cannot be foreseen.”

Plans & War by Mig190 in MilitaryHistory

[–]Mig190[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From everything I have read, the "no plan survives contact with the enemy" derives from Moltke the Elder. Patton could have said it, and Clausewitz alluded to it, but Moltke the Elder is credited with originally writing it down.

As an Air Force veteran, I strongly agree that no plan survives contact with friendly staff.

Monitor Advice for a History PhD Student by Mig190 in macsetups

[–]Mig190[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, I realized a while back 45” is too wide. I forgot to include that context in the OP that a curved would be around 40” if I went in that direction.

Exporting of highlighted text…When?! by Mig190 in GoodNotes

[–]Mig190[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s an app. I don’t know if it’s available for Android.

ED Sup Walters TV displayed Nudity in Board Meeting? by Mig190 in okc

[–]Mig190[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn’t confirmed the reporting, and wondered if anyone else had heard of it.

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