I am not a serious student of WWII but do fine it interesting.
My guess is the German Army was too exhausted to continue and took a few days to rest, reorganize etc. They thought they had the British trapped and had the time.
Similarly, I have read criticism of General Meade for not following up after Gettysburg. The truth is he couldn’t. Lee retreated to a strong position and according to Encyclopedia Britannica, the North lost even more than the South.
That totally surprises most people. The casualties were relatively even but the South could not afford that.
“My guess is the German Army was too exhausted to continue and took a few days to rest, reorganize etc. They thought they had the British trapped and had the time.
Similarly, I have read criticism of General Meade for not following up after Gettysburg. The truth is he couldn’t. Lee retreated to a strong position and according to Encyclopedia Britannica, the North lost even more than the South.”
You’ve nailed it. From the Civil War on, the U.S. has excelled at the ability to project power and provide the logistics support to make it happen. While there have been other great armies as well trained as ours or even better, none have been able to even come close in this. Example; Hitler came up lacking at least three times; Dunkirk, invasion of England, invasion of the Soviet Union. Taking a leap forward to the present and now; the EU (primarily Germany) for all its bluster about going it’s own way, couldn’t project power to its own border much less beyond. The U.S. is the only nation with the wherewithal to do it.