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Old 22nd Jul 2018, 07:57
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ancientaviator62
 
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Many moons ago I studied 'Market Garden' in some depth. My main impression was that the concept ignored the basic military truism 'no plan of attack survives contact with the enemy'. It appeared to me that everything had to go right for it to have even a slim chance of success. This was doubly so given the intelligence failures. IMHO I doubt that Patton in all his fury could have got the tanks up what was effectively a single road.
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