The alien commander in charge of the Ghirard Fleet clearly possessed a good understanding of human expert mechs and the 77th Warborn Mech Division in particular.
There were many arrogant alien leaders that never really made a serious attempt to understand their human foes in depth.
Those leaders were most prone to suffering catastrophic defeats where far too many of their expensive warships got torn apart by mechs.
The longer the Red War persisted, the greater the likelihood of encountering alien commanders that showed serious respect towards their human adversaries.
The threat from another galaxy may have spread untold death and destruction across the Red Ocean, but the arriving humans had also introduced a lot of new technologies, ideologies, military doctrines and so much more.
