Posted on 08/22/2014 4:24:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
I read an interesting article about how Monty was continually chaffing at Eisenhower’s broad-front approach and thought the war would end much quicker with a more singular, narrow-front attack. (I hardly trust anything Monty says. Apparently Eisenhower didn’t trust this idea either, although he gave Monty a chance to try it in Market-Garden)
So, from what I understand, the Market-Garden thing was Monty’s opportunity to put his idea into play.
Right now, it feels like the middle of the third quarter and Monty’s screaming “We won.” Isn’t that how bad football teams often pull defeat out of the jaws of victory, by premature declarations like that?
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