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> It also has nothing to do with the 2000 year old battle It has a little bit to do with it, I think, but only in two sense 1. It involved a decisive victory b
by jakderrida 3y ago
> It also has nothing to do with the 2000 year old battle
It has a little bit to do with it, I think, but only in two sense
1. It involved a decisive victory by envelopment which, completely unrelated to Cannae, Germany needed to avoid a two-front war.
2. It's just the go-to military general's example to refer to their own "masterpiece". aka. Schlieffen's Cannae.
I'll agree, though, that it would be equally relevant had Schlieffen called it, "Pulling my goalie to put an extra man on the ice".