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Germans didn't achieve their goals in North Africa in any possible framing of these goals that they used. They failed to secure Italian possessions which was initial point of the deployment. They failed to take Egypt too which was a result of gradual mission creep and Rommel personal flexible attitude towards the strategic goals High Command set before him.
Basically, if you move away from framing military success as 'who does the most killing' and 'who takes the most ground', the German actual success rate is pretty poor throughout the war.
Rommels orders from his superiors (who never bothered to visit Africa or read quartermaster papers for themselves) were complete non sense from the moment he arrivedOn top of that the claim was the operational victories came from not worrying to much about outpacing logistics
Truly the N.African campaign was not a good example for that!
He had no control over his own high command and political leadership deciding to use 80 percent of axis war potential against Russia and to declare war on 7x Germanys industrial power. He certainly has zero input in the Italian army and fleets wild lack of preparedness for war
Except in the aftermath of his incredible operational victories most of his campaigns in Africa started with him at a disadvantage of 2.5-3.5 to 1 in infantry armor and artillery and something close to 1:1 in aircraft
There is no general who would have gotten more out of what Germany committed to Africa under the nonsensical series of orders be received and lack of support from Europe. Not Ike not Monty not zhukov or napoleon. The dak fought a very tough and 8 times out of 10 operationally well managed campaign