slow and tedious planning doesn't always make for the best end result. Monty did good in North Africa and to some extent Italy because he was facing wide pockets of German resistance and knew how to disassemble them piecemeal. However, Market Garden was a different story, this was the first time he had to focus on heavily concentrated forces, but he approached the theater like he Approached N. Africa and Italy. The Pegasus Bridge incident was just a disaster, as well as allowing his very well trained Polish AB units to become isolated and slaughtered, and thinking that XXX Corp. could reach Eindhoven and Arnhem unimpeded within a day or two from Antwerp was fool hardy at best. In Theory the plan should have worked, but he wasn't counting on the most important element in the whole scenario, and that was the German's will to fight.

Not that I don't think Monty was a fine general, and really saved the Allies from disaster in North Africa, but I think it would have been best to let Gen. Eisenhower and Bradley (both who were experienced in that kind of operation) do the major planning, but Pride got in his way, I mean who wants to listen to a 'Yank' ?

Okay I've derailed this thread.