Comments by "Regis" (@Timbo5000) on "Montgomery vs Eisenhower on Operation Market Garden's True Purpose | History Debate" video.

  1. Whyever would Montgomery need to show the world he's bold when he had already commanded all ground forces in D-day and planned the Normandy breakout? He never seems to get credit for that. He surely was an overly proud prick, but he wasn't a bad commander all in all. I get the feeling that a lot of people take offence to Montgomery's personal attitude (horrible, admittedly) and go the extra mile to insult his achievements. Why do people always scrutinise his mistakes in great detail, yet never seems to commend his better work? Meanwhile a subpar general like Patton is praised into the heavens...
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  2.  @agentmulder1019  Bradley was Montgomery's SUBORDINATE in Normandy. Bradley's entire operation WAS PART OF MONTGOMERY'S LARGER STRATEGY. Look at it like this: you have local officers, then the general that plans and commands a specific operation (Bradley, Cobra), then a general that plans and commands the entire operation (Montgomery, the entire D-day operation plus the breakout of Normandy) and then you have an even larger scale where it is decided what large scale operations should take place in the first place and where (largely political function, Eisenhower). And on each level, credit is due for the planning. You can't take away the credit of a higher general based on what a lower general did as part of the higher general's plan . That makes no sense. Cobra was part of a larger set of operations within the breakout of Normandy. Montgomery's plan was to have Germans believe that there would be a breakout in the east, thin out the forces in the west as a result and then have the breakout happen there. And that breakout was operation Cobra. There is no one general that can take credit for that: Montgomery is the one to plan the breakout on a large scale and Bradley us the one to plan the breakout on a small scale. They both did their jobs excellently and this is NOT mutually exclusive. It's like saying Eisenhower failed his job because a random general on the field did "better", even though they have completely different jobs on completely different levels.
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