That purpose wasn't doing pike-and-lance charges into panzer lines. Just like most motorized units, WWI and WWII cavalry didn't fight from horseback - it would use horses to get to where they were going to fight, and dismount to fight.
The Eastern Front had a lot of terrain that was not conductive to wheeled travel.
Cavalry is also far more cost-efficient at hunting down partisans, and terrorizing civilians. It doesn't need petrol, you can just steal horsefeed directly from the people you are occupying.
Not so much by the US Army; perhaps by other armies. See my sibling comments about Maj Gen John Herr who was side-lined then forced into retirement because of his views of cavalry during WW 2.
That purpose wasn't doing pike-and-lance charges into panzer lines. Just like most motorized units, WWI and WWII cavalry didn't fight from horseback - it would use horses to get to where they were going to fight, and dismount to fight.
The Eastern Front had a lot of terrain that was not conductive to wheeled travel.
Cavalry is also far more cost-efficient at hunting down partisans, and terrorizing civilians. It doesn't need petrol, you can just steal horsefeed directly from the people you are occupying.