HIGHER COMMAND AND STAFF COURSE STAFF RIDE PAPER: Who Should Bear Primary Responsibility for the Culmination of Patton's US Third Army on the Moselle in 1944? Are There Lessons for Contemporary Campaign Planning?

Analyzes the culmination of the U.S. Third Army, led by General George S. Patton, on the Moselle river in France in 1944. Factors that led to the culmination of the Third Army; Argument that the culmination was not caused by a logistic failure; Benefit of fuel shortage to the Third Army on the Moselle;