Comments by "Big Woody" (@bigwoody4704) on "Nobody expected Rommel's Second North African Offensive! BATTLESTORM" video.

  1. Monty couldn't lose in the desert where an embarrassment of riches covered his obvious lack of command abilities.I've explained it's alright that IKE bares some of the responsibility by stringing Monty along letting him believe he was something he wasn't - a Field Marshall.Monty never ended up in the chanel after the GIs arrived imagine that. The only thing Churchill knew about military operations was mismanagement. He took 50,000 troops from O'Conner after he captured 130,000 Italians,400 tanks and 1,263 artillery pieces.Shipped them to Crete were they were routed and in turn weakened the desert forces. After Auchinleck & Dorman Smith won 1st Alamein Churchill wrongly removed General Auchinleck who argued that his men had not regrouped and needed reinforcing. Several military analysts accused Churchill of misunderstanding desert warfare tactics, saying he placed too much emphasis on territorial occupation. They needed 6 weeks to refit and resupply. So what does Monty do - took 10 weeks(Aug-13-Oct 23) to advance​ - much more time than Auchileck and Dorman Smith insisted on and got fired for in the 1st place - real bright move. Almost any Commander was walking into assured victory.The British finally got their victory over a German Army and Monty was made a Hero when in truth it was a British /Allied victory. Montgomery had 1500 miles and every concievable advantage - BIG ADVANTAGES in men/materiel/air cover/intelligence/tanks/artillery. Bernard won with Auchinlecks plan and the fact he and Dorman -Smith laid the massive mine field in front of Alam halfa and moved over 2 fresh divisions from the Nile Delta.Churchill screwed up Monty Took 4 more weeks than Claude Auchileck wanted .He even benefitted the most from ULTRA as it was then fully operational in mid to late August of '42.In Oct/Nov the Torch Landings took place adding 109,000 more men to the scrum.Even a pathetic pillock like Burns could of won under those conditions.Berard isn't studied at Military Academies except as a bad example fired them when they explained they had to refit,reinforce and resupply and couldn't attack right away needing 6 weeks at least .real bright moves. The Rommel Papers,by B.H.Liddell Hart,pages 360-61"Montgomery risked nothing in any way and bold solutions are completely foreign to him.He would never take the risk of following up boldy and over running us.He could have done it with out any danger to himself. Indeed such a course would have cost him fewer losses in the long run than his methodical insistence on overwhelming superiority in each tactical action,which he could only obtain at the cost of speed" The Rommel Papers by B.H.Liddell-Hart page 521 Montgomery was in a position to profit by the bitter experience of his predecessors .While supplies on our side had been cut to a trickle ,American and British ships were bringing vast quantities on materials to North Africa .Many times greater than either his predecessors had ever had. His principle was to fight no battle unless he knew for certain that he would win it .Of course that is a method which will only work given material superiority - but that he had. He was undoubtedly more of a strategist than a tactician. Command of a mobile battle force was not his strong point British officers made the error off planning operations according to what was strategically desirable ,rather than what was tactically attainable *Desert Generals by Corelli Barnett,pages 236-37Montgomery was seldom able to assess the combat effectiveness and intentions of his enemy.Barnett wrote "A student noted a typical scheme of Montgomery's dealt with 'Our sides' plans;but the enemy intentions or reactions were not imagined,either as a source of danger or opportunity. Patton:A Genius for War,By Carlo D'Este After the War General Fritz Bayerlein commander of Panzer Lehr Division and the Afrika Corp.He assessed the escape of Rommel's Panzers after Alamein I do not think General Patton would have let us get away so easily said Bayerlein .Comparing Patton with Guderian and Montgomery with Von Rundstedt.
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  2. Oh this pill Boy Burny is dissolving in his own spit .If it wasn't for the looming Russian threat Ike would have told the CROWN to send Monty to the home you reside at. Go jump in the Channel and splash around like your hero
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  3. Johnny the men with the nets have received a ping from your ankle monitor , apparently you've slipped out of the court yard again.Please ring the nurses station and let them know your location. You're not OK but just where your hiding
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  4. The only thing monty rammed.....well never mind you are still a child. Monty got boat raced by Patton who took both palermo and messina and he later admitted it.Bernard dithered much like you here. It was all down hill from there - Italy he did even less, then he got recalled before embarrassing himself and the crown further.Caen,Goodwood,Falaise,Monty Garden the GIs had to start propping up the fumbling fraud. Europe saw it too
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  5. You revel in it Johnny,why haven't you responded to the peole pounding the snot out of you on felton's board? You even deleted your baffoonery,how come johnny?hitting the scotch while hitting the send button never ends up well for you .Same thing over on Mark's Airplane Board, you're a treasure Burns and they just wanted to bury you? If they knew you were in the home for the disadvantaged they wouldn't have been so harsh I'm sure
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  6. Johnny they're waiting for you on Felton's board enmasse,perhaps you should explain your self. You poor trampled cabbage leaf bernard like you was always the last - in his case to cross the rhine. BTW that was with Simpson's 9th US Army after his disasterous casualties he took.IKE left him over because the the Gerries were running to the Western Allies to stay out of the gulags - where you belong
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