Boy, that sure sounds like George Patton all right! LOL!

George, I think you were on the right track, but I also think that the real powerbrokers behind the scenes didn't want that war over as soon as you did. No sir. They had a lot of lucrative military contracts to fill and a schedule to follow. Thus they nixed your excellent blitzkrieg plan and went for the slow battle of attrition, advance on a broad front nonsense...thus lengthening the war by a year, killing a lot more American soldiers, and making a hell of a lot of money for the arms industry.

That's my theory.

As for your analysis of Montgomery? Spot on. The man only once risked a battle he might not necessarily win, and it was Market-Garden. He lost it. I don't think he was a very good general, I just think he was a hell of a good organizer of an army's logistical supply chain, which is how he overwhelmed the Germans in North Africa. Given adequate supplies of his own, Rommel would have wiped Montgomery out without even straining himself.