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>underestimating Rommel and overestimating their own competence.

They literally didnt lol.
The whole motivation for Operation Torch was to gain combat experience before taking on the full might of the Wehrmacht on continental Europe.
Better to start against a third-rate Vishy forces and Rommels DAK which could be mitigated by the fact that Germany was far more ill-equipt and strategically inferior to operate overseas than the vast British and American machine could, but they never fooled themselves that US officers and men were inexperienced while the German officers and men were tactically superior.

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Why, in spite of their sheer material superiority, did the Americans lose the Battle of Kasserine Pass?