It seems an interesting mix of politics and military strategy that Eisenhower and the Senior Staff was dealing with including who should get the limited supplies - Patton or Monty and the British and Canadians.
Not sure what military strategy apart form politics made it seem like the groups in northeastern France and Belgium should trump the hard-driving Third Army headed straight for Germany and Berlin.
They always intended the drive in the north to be the main event, because their first objective was to take the Ruhr. And they weren’t able to change enough as the circumstances changed.
Neutralizing the V1 and V2 rocket bases. British public opinion was demanding it, as a lot of civilians were dying from the inaccurate attacks.