"Brecourt Manor and West Point" Topic
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Korvessa  | 17 Jun 2024 11:05 a.m. PST |
Surely we have some West Pointers amoung us who can answer this question definitively one way or another. Is this really taught at West Point in a meaningful way(now or ever)? Or is this just another one of Ambrose's poorly researched rumors? |
| Nine pound round | 17 Jun 2024 12:09 p.m. PST |
It wasn't when I was a cadet, thirty-plus years ago. |
| Nine pound round | 17 Jun 2024 12:19 p.m. PST |
The military science courses that were meant to develop small unit leadership skills and basic tactics were, IIRC, all taught with the weapons then in use in mind, probably because those were the ordnance with which cadets would be intuitively familiar, from their summer training. There was a mandatory two semester military history course, but that dealt with big picture stuff- operational and strategic views of war (mostly Napoleonic, American Civil War, and WWII), seldom small unit actions. If it was mentioned, it was either mentioned in passing, or I was asleep, or both. |
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