二战中的德国士兵形容美军的战斗风格是混乱和不可预测的，这是否真的是一种优势？
我父亲是二战中的一名战斗工程师。他告诉我，有一段时间他们用一栋农舍做掩护。如果部队中有人被德军看到，德军会发射几发迫击炮弹，但如果他们失去了美国人的踪迹，就会立即停止。这是因为德国人的手册上说，除非他们能真正看到敌人，否则不要开火。德国的物资总是很匮乏，必须节约使用。
与日本海军类似，德国陆军相信精心策划的打击会在敌人能够恢复之前取得优势。这在对法国和比利时的闪电战中非常有效，但在突出部战役中却惨遭失败。他们在战斗撤退方面也训练有素，这需要大量的训练和计划，以避免留下暴露点。
美国人利用他们令人难以置信的后勤能力，将大量的物资运送到前线。他们还相信要更慷慨地使用他们的物资，即使他们不确定敌人的位置，也要使用大量的火炮。这就是火力侦察的起源。火力侦察--维基百科 他们还根据一项政策进行工作，使低级军官有能力命令进行大规模的炮击和空袭。在德国人看来，美国人似乎是在浪费材料，没有什么计划和结果。对美国人来说，结果值得这些材料。
英国和美国部队还认为，要保持前线的稳定推进，而不是在战略要点上使用攻击来突破防线。他们认为，参与这种突破的部队会很快被敌人包围和摧毁。这就是德军在突出部战役中的情况。盟军的防线几乎没有移动，而德军却被消灭了。这也是盟军没有绕过赫特根森林的原因。如果他们绕过了它，德国人就会包围盟军并摧毁他们。(德军用于突出部战役的装备就是在那里收集的)。德国人接受了发动突击和反击敌人的突击的训练。
一个可能的比较是将德军的进攻与美国内战中罗伯特-李的战术进行比较，将盟军的战术与格兰特和谢尔曼的战术进行比较。事实上，葛底斯堡战役与突击战有许多相似之处。
在德国人看来，美军的推进似乎是草率的、不协调的，但美国人认为，如果试图完全协调一切，就会拖延推进的时间，给德国人以反击的机会。盟军没有计划前线部队的行动，而是把时间花在计划和改善部队的后勤供应上，围绕物资的流动来计划部队的行动。盟军的计划在德国人看来是不可预测的，因为他们没有使用同样的策略。
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My father was a combat engineer in World War II. He told me that for a while they were using a farm house for cover. If somebody from the unit was seen by the Germans, the Germans would lob a few mortar rounds, but would stop immediately if they lost sight of the Americans. This was due to the fact that the German manuals said not to fire unless they could actually see the enemy. Germany was always low on supplies and had to be economical in their use.
Similar to the Japanese Navy, the German Army believed in meticulously planned strikes that would gain ground before the enemy could recover. This worked well in the Blitzrieg attack though France and Belgium, but failed miserably in the Battle of the Bulge. They were also very well trained in fighting retreats, which required a great deal of training and planning to avoid leaving points exposed.
The Americans used their incredible logistical ability to move huge amounts of material to the front lines. They also believed in using their material far more generously, using large amounts of artillery even if they weren’t sure of the enemy positions. This was the origin of reconnaissance by fire. Reconnaissance by fire - Wikipedia They also worked according to a policy that gave low-ranking officers the ability to order massive artillery and aerial attacks. To the Germans, it appeared that the Americans were wasting material without much planning or results. To the Americans, the results were worth the material.
The British and American forces also believed in maintaining a steady advance of the front line instead of using attacks at strategic points to break through the line. They felt that units engaged in such a breakthrough would be quickly surrounded and destroyed by the enemy. That is what happened to the Germans at the battle of the Bulge. The Allied lines barely moved and the German forces were obliterated. That is also why the Allies didn’t bypass the Hurtgen Forest. If they had bypassed it, the Germans would have surrounded the Allied forces and destroyed them. (That’s where the German equipment for the Battle of the Bulge was collecting.) The Germans were trained for launching raids and countering the enemy’s raids.
One possible comparison would have been to compare the German attacks to the tactics of Robert E. Lee in the American Civil War and the Allied tactics to those of Grant and Sherman. In fact, the Battle of Gettysburg had many similarities to the Battle of the Bulge.
The American advances seemed sloppy and uncoordinated to the Germans, but the Americans felt that trying to coordinate everything completely would have delayed the advance and given the Germans an opportunity to counter-attack. Instead of planning the movement of the front-line troops, the Allies spent their time planning and improving the logistical supply of the troops, planning the movement of the troops around the movement of the supplies. The Allied plans seemed unpredictable to the Germans because they weren’t using the same strategies.
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