concept of the senior command, you know, at cassrine, was there chaos and the senior commander was aec bro broken man, and sur enough the attack bogged down. patton is at his headquarters and hears about this, and he did show up later that day for the second attack, okay? so the germans realize the first attack is bogged down so they say we'll try again, but this time we're going to focus most of our effort on the 3rd battalion of the 18th infantry regiment, specifically k company here that's kind of out there on the lonesome. so for the second attack that's where we'll focus our combat part and where our decisive operation will be. the attack was going to start at 1600. this time intel knew about it, okay? we had what they called tactical signals intelligence. at the tactical level both sides operated in the clear. they were not talking encrypted and we'd gotten word that the germans were getting ready to steal themselves a second attack. i keep on talking military time, rolls around, and there's no attack. and allen is getting impatient and what's going on? where is the attack suppos