The German defeat in the East was, in my opinion, due to one main reason—that our troops were compelled to cover immense spaces without the flexibility, in the command, that would have enabled them to concentrate on holding decisive points. Thus they lost the initiative permanently.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The German defeat in the East was, in my opinion, due to one main reason—that our troops were compelled to cover immense spaces without the flexibility, in the command, that would have enabled them to concentrate on holding decisive points. Thus they lost the initiative permanently." in the context of "Quoted in B. H. Liddell Hart, The German Generals Talk (1948), ch. 15" to mean that wisdom is timeless.