Comments on: Get There First https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/get-there-first/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/get-there-first/comment-page-1/#comment-1686041 Isegoria Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:14:20 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36503#comment-1686041 I have definitely mentioned Lanchester’s square law before, and I was quite surprised Fernandez did not mention it in his piece.

It was L. C. Rees who mentioned the “Death from a Distance” thesis, in a comment on how Targeting Makes Us Human.

]]> By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/get-there-first/comment-page-1/#comment-1685742 Alrenous Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:18:51 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36503#comment-1685742 Lanchester’s square law, which I first saw referenced here, which I believe was linked from this blog: The power of a force like tanks scales with the square of the size of the force. If you manage to kill a couple before they can turn their guns on you, an even fight quickly turns to your advantage.

]]> By: Toddy Cat https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/get-there-first/comment-page-1/#comment-1685267 Toddy Cat Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:57:23 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36503#comment-1685267 There’s no doubt that the Sherman got a bad rap; as no less an authority as George Patton pointed out, tank-on-tank comparisons don’t mean a whole lot, what matters is operational deployment and doctrine. There was a lot of “Wehrmacht-envy” in the 1970′s and 1980′s, spurred on by the like of Martin Van Crevald, and the sort of “what if Superman and Batman got in a fight?” type comparisons that Fernandez is criticizing are a function of this.

However, it does look like Fernandez veered a bit too far the other way, however.

]]> By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/get-there-first/comment-page-1/#comment-1684349 Isegoria Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:55:23 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36503#comment-1684349 The Wikipedia article is listing the claimed kills of one particular regiment. I don’t know where Fernandez got his four Tigers.

]]> By: Marc Pisco https://www.isegoria.net/2014/10/get-there-first/comment-page-1/#comment-1684187 Marc Pisco Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:10:04 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36503#comment-1684187 Fernandez writes “four Tigers died in the massacre”; the Wikipedia article he quotes says one Tiger and one Panzer IV. Careless.

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