It sounds like it was too risky to have made a counter attack at all, but also that it would be politically unfeasible to continue to attempt to attrit. It's an impossible situation that they might have actually found the best result for. Unless their casualties were unacceptably high from the failed attack?
It sounds like it was too risky to have made a counter attack at all, but also that it would be politically unfeasible to continue to attempt to attrit. It's an impossible situation that they might have actually found the best result for. Unless their casualties were unacceptably high from the failed attack?