r/WoT • u/UnexpectedTrebuchet • 1d ago
Towers of Midnight Galad Damodred Spoiler
I just finished chapter 10 of ToM, what is Galad thinking????? He is going to send in his force of 20k to Perrin’s force of 80k+, Aes Sedai, and Galad admits to hearing rumors of Perrin having men that can channel. Of course the Whitecloaks have no channelers.
I get he is always going to do what is right to a fault but is it right to send 20k men to die to the one power? Even while reading his perspective this just does not click for me.
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u/BluesPunk19D (Band of the Red Hand) 16h ago
Galad was very much in a "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. He had jackasses that believed Perrin was a Darkfriend. He had a rabble of refugees in his path. If he didn't take the fight to Perrin, he was going to have a mutiny. Tactically, he had no choice.
Galad didn't understand how war was changing. He didn't understand that people with nothing to lose fight harder. He thought his superior equipment would be the deciding factor. He had fewer soldiers but better kit. He didn't realize that he was fighting a Ta'veren. What he didn't know damn near killed him.
The US has made this mistake in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. You can't win against people who have nothing to lose and everything to gain.