>>96836744
Eh Rommel constantly outran his supply lines and kinda refused to consider logistics properly. He could have been constructing oil pipelines from Tripoli or suchlike, but was just always obsessed with GOTTA GO FAST.

I read a lot about him in the desert campaign and the guy was borderline suicidal crazy at times.

>Decide to personally recon into enemy with a few officers and an armored car or two
>Recon at night, no support, just the general and like 10 staff in a few armored cars
>Takes ages trying to find how to get through the barbed wire on the front line
>Recon, but then can't find where to get back
>Have to camp out on the enemy side, within like 2km of an entire Allied armor division
>Somehow make it back in the morning.

A lot of the north Africa campaign reads like this - crazy stuff that he manages to get away with, often ending up surrounded behind enemy lines, but manages to somehow escape.
He pushed his men and machines to the absolute limit, but felt that logistics were 'someone elses problem'.