Military Power

I was watching Band of Brothers, and was wondering, was Norman Dike really as incompetent as he was portrayed in that series?

I know Winters disliked Dike and considered him to be useless and incompetent. The question is, with these facts and with the heavy losses that Easy Company had endured at Bastogne (Compton, Wild Bill, Toye, et.al.), why did Winters make Easy Company the lead attack company into Foy and not use Dog Company (being held in reserve) where Spiers came from? Was it to embarrass Dike in front of Sink so Winters could get him relieved from command of Easy Company? Winters seemed to be betting the lives of the men of Easy Company on the actions of an inept company commander (either rise to the occasion and make a successful attack or just freeze). It's just an observation.

I was looking around the net for info on Dike. I thought I might stumble on an obit or something if he has passed away. I haven't found anything like that but I did stumble across this article. I got a kick out of the use of B O B as a lesson on decision making for the business world. However from the sound of the last paragraph they seem to be under the impression that Dike died in the Battle of Foy.

http://www.networkcomputing.com/1312/1312colpreston.html

I get amused at how the business world tries to put its deeds and behaviors in terms of football or warfare.

I'm sorry, but there is no comparison between corporate politics and the Battle of Foy. Nobody dies or has their body shredded to pieces in a staff meeting.

I wish civilians would stop acting like their corporate rubbish is like a war. It puts less-than-glorious activitied (corporate mergers, insider trading, stock manipulation) in terms of battle that demean and trivialize the struggles, heroism, sacrifice, and suffering of our service members.