“He leapt at every experience of battle, but he turned experience into military wisdom with his shrewdness and his objectivity. There thus emerged not only a superb man of action but a military philosopher. It was this gift of Rommel's for distilling experience, for translating individual achievement, recollected, into the language of enduring–and universal–operational and tactical lessons which made him remarkable and lay at the heart of his success. He could, throughout life, decide fast, act boldly, remember clearly, narrate vividly, ponder and deduce wisely. BH Liddell Hart described Rommel's genius as combining the conceptive and the executive talents...”
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