Originally Posted by Fattyfireplug
...I can promise you one thing. Whatever lessons were taken from that exercise by the US, will severely change the outcome in real battle.

Well... that is certainly everyone's hope.

Better to lose on the practice field, learn valuable lessons from the defeat and use them to win on the actual battle field.

Patton, who was not at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, learned a lot of valuable lessons from the butt kicking the American forces took there. He adapted his tactics and became a force for the Germans to reckoned with.

"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie