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To: abb

Ike was a political strategist, not a military strategist.


16 posted on 05/27/2018 5:14:53 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy
Ike was a political strategist, not a military strategist.

Montgomery was neither. The failure to get Antwerp's port facilities into operation in September was the single greatest strategic blunder of the Western European campaign. An argument can be made that had supplies sufficient to maintain allied momentum been available, Huertegen and the Bulge would never have happened. Ike was the boss, and he was responsible.

20 posted on 05/27/2018 6:36:37 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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