This interview is excerpted from a much longer interview that has since been taken down from RUclips. That interview contained much interesting and enlightening information, especially in the context of current events. I would look for this interview and try to get it re-posted back on RUclips because it is important.
Here is the link to the full interview: [ ruclips.net/video/-XINjEnX7dg/видео.htmlsi=gUVyQp2jAzZcgvP6 ] I especially call your attention to where Monty says that he told Richard Nixon that “America needs an Asia policy. It doesn’t have one.” Montgomery also asserts that China (the PRC) will eventually come to dominate all of Asia and that “it cannot be stopped.” This is an important interview and should be watched in its entirety.
Wonder if the Field Marshal and all the men fought in the War, sacrificing themselves etc would do the same if they ever knew, Britain is today? Sorry for them but Thank you to all.
He was just the same as the rest of the English commanders during the two wars, incompetent! he did nothing but wait in Africa for his force was built up to 3 times the size of the Germans and they were also short of everything when he had it all, he sacrificed many of the best troops he had by sending them in without any support just like in a WW1 style charge and he still nearly lost at el Alamein and only probably only winning because Rommel wasn't there, his failures in Europe cost the Allies a lot of time , men and resources and was not trusted at all by Eisenhower who had to put up with him because of politics and Churchill who was the worst military strategist around.
@joeblogs3950 Hollywood history? Montgomery was the reason the war in North Africa changed to an allied victory overnight. There were no decisive allied victories until El Alamein. In Europe, under Montgomery the allies were ahead of schedule by September 1944. Only Paris was supposed to be reached by then, but under Montgomery as C-in-C of all allied ground forces they were 400km ahead of schedule and were in Brussels, Belgium. It was when Eisenhower took over from Montgomery as C-in-C of all ground forces that the allied advance stalled and got way behind schedule, due to Eisenhower's foolish insistence on his broad front strategy, which got nowhere all through autumn 1944, getting the Americans bogged down in pointless campaigns in the Hurtgen Forest, Lorraine and Alsace and then suffering the humiliation of a retreat in the Ardennes (Montgomery had to bail the Americans out of their self made mess there). Montgomery brilliantly predicted El Alamein to last around 2 weeks and Normandy around 3 months. Montgomery's casualty rates were comparative low. He always made sure his men were fully prepared and had the correct resources and supplies. He never lost a ground battle. Montgomery was the most successful Western Allied ground commander of WW2 by some way. He won more battles and took more ground through more countries while facing more quality German opposition than any other Western Allied ground commander in WW2. Nobody did more to help win the ground war in the west than Bernard Montgomery.
The finest army in the world from mid 1942 onwards was the British under Montgomery. From Alem el Halfa it moved right up into Denmark, through nine countries, and not once suffered a reverse taking all in its path. Over 90% of German armour in the west was destroyed by the British. Montgomery, in command of all ground forces, had to give the US armies an infantry role in Normandy as they were not equipped to engage massed German SS armour. *Montgomery* stopped the Germans in every event they attacked him: ▪ August 1942 - Alem el Halfa; October 1942 - El Alamein; ▪ March 1943 - Medenine; ▪ June 1944 - Normandy; ▪ Sept/Oct 1944 - The Netherlands; ▪ December 1944 - Battle of the Bulge; *A list of Montgomery’s victories in WW2:* ▪ Battle of Alam Halfa; ▪ Second Battle of El Alamein; ▪ Battle of El Agheila; ▪ Battle of Medenine; ▪ Battle of the Mareth Line; ▪ Battle of Wadi Akarit; ▪ Allied invasion of Sicily; ▪ Operation Overlord - the largest amphibious invasion in history; ▪ Market Garden - a 60 mile salient created into German territory; ▪ Battle of the Bulge - while taking control of two shambolic US armies; ▪ Operation Veritable; ▪ Operation Plunder. *Montgomery not once had a reverse.* *Not on one occasion were ground armies, British, US or others, under Monty's command pushed back into a retreat by the Germans.* Monty's 8th Army advanced the fastest of any army in WW2. From El Alamein to El Agheila from the 4th to 23rd November 1942, 1,300 km in just 17 days. After fighting a major exhausting battle at El Alemein through half a million mines. This was an Incredible feat, unparalleled in WW2. With El Alamein costing just 13,500 casualties. The US Army were a shambles in 1944/45 retreating in the Ardennes. The Americans didn't perform well at all east of Aachen, then the Hurtgen Forest defeat with 33,000 casualties and Patton's Lorraine crawl of 10 miles in three months at Metz with over 50,000 casualties, with his Lorraine campaign being a failure. Then Montgomery had to be put in command of the shambolic US First and Ninth armies saving them from annihilation, aided by the British 21st Army Group, just to get back to the start line in the Ardennes, with nearly 100,000 US casualties. Hodges, head of the US First army, fled from Spa to near Liege on the 18th, despite the Germans never getting anywhere near to Spa. Hodges did not even wait for the Germans to approach Spa. He had already fled long before the Germans were stopped. The Germans took 20,000 US POWs in the Battle of the Bulge in Dec 1944. No other allied country had that many prisoners taken in the 1944-45 timeframe. The USA retreat at the Bulge, again, was the only allied army to be pushed back into a retreat in the 1944-45 timeframe. Montgomery was effectively in charge of the Bulge having to take control of the US First and Ninth armies. Coningham of the RAF was put in command of USAAF elements. The US Third Army constantly stalled after coming up from the south. The Ninth stayed under Monty's control until the end of the war just about. The US armies were losing men at unsustainable rates due to poor generalship. Normandy was planned and commanded by the British, with Montgomery involved in planning, with also Montgomery leading *all* ground forces, which was a great success coming in ahead of schedule and with less casualties than predicted. The Royal Navy was in command of all naval forces and the RAF all air forces. The German armour in the west was wiped out by primarily the British - the US forces were impotent against massed panzers. Monty assessed the US armies (he was in charge of them) giving them a supporting infantry role, as they were just not equipped, or experienced, to fight concentrated tank v tank battles. On 3 Sept 1944 when Eisenhower took over overall allied command of ground forces everything went at a snail's pace. The fastest advance of any western army in Autumn/early 1945 was the 60 mile thrust by the British XXX Corps to the Rhine at Arnhem.
Very good point about never being pushed back. To be fair, we did also have supreme air power and without that, it might have been a different story, especially in Normandy. I do agree though, a very very good general.
Does the British Crown treat all their subjects like mushrooms? Kept in the dark and fed crap. You delusional twats this piss ant got driven into the channel and didn't cross backover for 4 FULL YEARS - with the GIs of course.Blisterhead burns get that head wound looked at.Oh and this pervo liked the lads read the FULL MONTY *Ike & Monty by Norman Gelb,p.331 Apparently the Russians shared the doubts others had about Montgomery in Normandy.Their advancing troops were reported to have put up a roadsign near Minsk saying - 1,924 kilometers to Caen* *The Battle of the Generals,by Martin Blumenson,p.64-65 As Allied conferences continued, Russo-American solidarity seemed to coalesce while British influence waned.* The symptom of growing strength of the United States and the Soviet Union as well as the diminishing power of Britain who refused to accept the reality. *MAX Hastings. Armageddon: the Battle for Germany, 1944-45 By 1945, the Russians cared little for British remonstrances, but they respected the power of the Americans.* All those holding power in the United States recognized that only two powers would count in the post-war world, *and Britain would not be one of them*
He was just the same as the rest of the English commanders during the two wars, incompetent! he did nothing but wait in Africa for his force was built up to 3 times the size of the Germans and they were also short of everything when he had it all, he sacrificed many of the best troops he had by sending them in without any support just like in a WW1 style charge and he still nearly lost at el Alamein and only probably only winning because Rommel wasn't there, his failures in Europe cost the Allies a lot of time , men and resources and was not trusted at all by Eisenhower who had to put up with him because of politics and Churchill who was the worst military strategist around.
@@johnburns4017 go to bed johnny you're drunk,try one of your other accounts.Just how many have you opened the scrapped once your fraudulant formations were discovered? Go tell your novels to India,Ireland,Canada and the ANZACs British forces The world leaders in strategic retreats. Norway,Netherlands, Belgium and France,Dunkirk in 1940 Greece, Crete,Hong Kong and Libya in 1941 Tobruk and Dieppe,Singapore in 1942 The French/Dutch/Poles watched as Brooke and Bernard at Dunkerque take to the fishing boats as they were taking bullets. Sure Empire Go across the channel and ask them blisterhead.Shouldn't take you 4 full years like it did bernard. I'd advise every one to read THE FULL MONTY, that's johnny's hero
Yes it is drivel you poofs sat on you estates while all of Colonials were run thru the shredder.John Burns and Dawes same deluded twat waffle - GET HELP
He did nothing but wait in Africa for his force was built up to 3 times the size of the Germans and they were also short of everything when he had it all, he sacrificed many of the best troops he had by sending them in without any support just like in a WW1 style charge and he still nearly lost at el Alamein and only probably winning because Rommel wasn't there, his failures in Europe cost the Allies a lot of time , men and resources and was not trusted at all by Eisenhower who had to put up with him because of politics and Churchill who was the worst military strategist around.
This interview is excerpted from a much longer interview that has since been taken down from RUclips. That interview contained much interesting and enlightening information, especially in the context of current events. I would look for this interview and try to get it re-posted back on RUclips because it is important.
ruclips.net/video/-XINjEnX7dg/видео.html
Here is the link to the full interview:
[ ruclips.net/video/-XINjEnX7dg/видео.htmlsi=gUVyQp2jAzZcgvP6 ]
I especially call your attention to where Monty says that he told Richard Nixon that “America needs an Asia policy. It doesn’t have one.”
Montgomery also asserts that China (the PRC) will eventually come to dominate all of Asia and that “it cannot be stopped.”
This is an important interview and should be watched in its entirety.
Really interesting,Monty is ignored at our cost
Thank you very much for posting this link.
It's very much appreciated.
Leadership 101!!!
control yourself first!
Controversial chap but very good at what he did. Bit of an ego which got in his way but also got him where was.
All people who want to be leaders have egos.
Wonder if the Field Marshal and all the men fought in the War, sacrificing themselves etc would do the same if they ever knew, Britain is today? Sorry for them but Thank you to all.
Monty was a strategic genius.
He was just the same as the rest of the English commanders during the two wars, incompetent! he did nothing but wait in Africa for his force was built up to 3 times the size of the Germans and they were also short of everything when he had it all, he sacrificed many of the best troops he had by sending them in without any support just like in a WW1 style charge and he still nearly lost at el Alamein and only probably only winning because Rommel wasn't there, his failures in Europe cost the Allies a lot of time , men and resources and was not trusted at all by Eisenhower who had to put up with him because of politics and Churchill who was the worst military strategist around.
@@joeblogs3950 Good job joe lots of limeys with their inferiority complex regurgitating bombast
@joeblogs3950
Hollywood history? Montgomery was the reason the war in North Africa changed to an allied victory overnight. There were no decisive allied victories until El Alamein.
In Europe, under Montgomery the allies were ahead of schedule by September 1944. Only Paris was supposed to be reached by then, but under Montgomery as C-in-C of all allied ground forces they were 400km ahead of schedule and were in Brussels, Belgium.
It was when Eisenhower took over from Montgomery as C-in-C of all ground forces that the allied advance stalled and got way behind schedule, due to Eisenhower's foolish insistence on his broad front strategy, which got nowhere all through autumn 1944, getting the Americans bogged down in pointless campaigns in the Hurtgen Forest, Lorraine and Alsace and then suffering the humiliation of a retreat in the Ardennes (Montgomery had to bail the Americans out of their self made mess there).
Montgomery brilliantly predicted El Alamein to last around 2 weeks and Normandy around 3 months. Montgomery's casualty rates were comparative low. He always made sure his men were fully prepared and had the correct resources and supplies. He never lost a ground battle.
Montgomery was the most successful Western Allied ground commander of WW2 by some way. He won more battles and took more ground through more countries while facing more quality German opposition than any other Western Allied ground commander in WW2. Nobody did more to help win the ground war in the west than Bernard Montgomery.
Von Mellenthin said Montgomery was the best of the war.
Not 3 times the size in Africa , it was 2 to one
The finest army in the world from mid 1942 onwards was the British under Montgomery. From Alem el Halfa it moved right up into Denmark, through nine countries, and not once suffered a reverse taking all in its path. Over 90% of German armour in the west was destroyed by the British. Montgomery, in command of all ground forces, had to give the US armies an infantry role in Normandy as they were not equipped to engage massed German SS armour.
*Montgomery* stopped the Germans in every event they attacked him:
▪ August 1942 - Alem el Halfa; October 1942 - El Alamein;
▪ March 1943 - Medenine;
▪ June 1944 - Normandy;
▪ Sept/Oct 1944 - The Netherlands;
▪ December 1944 - Battle of the Bulge;
*A list of Montgomery’s victories in WW2:*
▪ Battle of Alam Halfa;
▪ Second Battle of El Alamein;
▪ Battle of El Agheila;
▪ Battle of Medenine;
▪ Battle of the Mareth Line;
▪ Battle of Wadi Akarit;
▪ Allied invasion of Sicily;
▪ Operation Overlord - the largest amphibious invasion in history;
▪ Market Garden - a 60 mile salient created into German territory;
▪ Battle of the Bulge - while taking control of two shambolic US armies;
▪ Operation Veritable;
▪ Operation Plunder.
*Montgomery not once had a reverse.*
*Not on one occasion were ground armies, British, US or others, under Monty's command pushed back into a retreat by the Germans.* Monty's 8th Army advanced the fastest of any army in WW2. From El Alamein to El Agheila from the 4th to 23rd November 1942, 1,300 km in just 17 days. After fighting a major exhausting battle at El Alemein through half a million mines. This was an Incredible feat, unparalleled in WW2. With El Alamein costing just 13,500 casualties.
The US Army were a shambles in 1944/45 retreating in the Ardennes. The Americans didn't perform well at all east of Aachen, then the Hurtgen Forest defeat with 33,000 casualties and Patton's Lorraine crawl of 10 miles in three months at Metz with over 50,000 casualties, with his Lorraine campaign being a failure. Then Montgomery had to be put in command of the shambolic US First and Ninth armies saving them from annihilation, aided by the British 21st Army Group, just to get back to the start line in the Ardennes, with nearly 100,000 US casualties.
Hodges, head of the US First army, fled from Spa to near Liege on the 18th, despite the Germans never getting anywhere near to Spa. Hodges did not even wait for the Germans to approach Spa. He had already fled long before the Germans were stopped. The Germans took 20,000 US POWs in the Battle of the Bulge in Dec 1944. No other allied country had that many prisoners taken in the 1944-45 timeframe.
The USA retreat at the Bulge, again, was the only allied army to be pushed back into a retreat in the 1944-45 timeframe. Montgomery was effectively in charge of the Bulge having to take control of the US First and Ninth armies. Coningham of the RAF was put in command of USAAF elements. The US Third Army constantly stalled after coming up from the south. The Ninth stayed under Monty's control until the end of the war just about. The US armies were losing men at unsustainable rates due to poor generalship.
Normandy was planned and commanded by the British, with Montgomery involved in planning, with also Montgomery leading *all* ground forces, which was a great success coming in ahead of schedule and with less casualties than predicted.
The Royal Navy was in command of all naval forces and the RAF all air forces. The German armour in the west was wiped out by primarily the British - the US forces were impotent against massed panzers. Monty assessed the US armies (he was in charge of them) giving them a supporting infantry role, as they were just not equipped, or experienced, to fight concentrated tank v tank battles.
On 3 Sept 1944 when Eisenhower took over overall allied command of ground forces everything went at a snail's pace. The fastest advance of any western army in Autumn/early 1945 was the 60 mile thrust by the British XXX Corps to the Rhine at Arnhem.
Very good point about never being pushed back.
To be fair, we did also have supreme air power and without that, it might have been a different story, especially in Normandy.
I do agree though, a very very good general.
Does the British Crown treat all their subjects like mushrooms? Kept in the dark and fed crap. You delusional twats this piss ant got driven into the channel and didn't cross backover for 4 FULL YEARS - with the GIs of course.Blisterhead burns get that head wound looked at.Oh and this pervo liked the lads read the FULL MONTY
*Ike & Monty by Norman Gelb,p.331 Apparently the Russians shared the doubts others had about Montgomery in Normandy.Their advancing troops were reported to have put up a roadsign near Minsk saying - 1,924 kilometers to Caen*
*The Battle of the Generals,by Martin Blumenson,p.64-65 As Allied conferences continued, Russo-American solidarity seemed to coalesce while British influence waned.* The symptom of growing strength of the United States and the Soviet Union as well as the diminishing power of Britain who refused to accept the reality.
*MAX Hastings. Armageddon: the Battle for Germany, 1944-45 By 1945, the Russians cared little for British remonstrances, but they respected the power of the Americans.* All those holding power in the United States recognized that only two powers would count in the post-war world, *and Britain would not be one of them*
He was just the same as the rest of the English commanders during the two wars, incompetent! he did nothing but wait in Africa for his force was built up to 3 times the size of the Germans and they were also short of everything when he had it all, he sacrificed many of the best troops he had by sending them in without any support just like in a WW1 style charge and he still nearly lost at el Alamein and only probably only winning because Rommel wasn't there, his failures in Europe cost the Allies a lot of time , men and resources and was not trusted at all by Eisenhower who had to put up with him because of politics and Churchill who was the worst military strategist around.
@@joeblogs3950
You need to read my post again. Slowly.
An stop taking notice of Hollywood films.
@@johnburns4017 go to bed johnny you're drunk,try one of your other accounts.Just how many have you opened the scrapped once your fraudulant formations were discovered?
Go tell your novels to India,Ireland,Canada and the ANZACs
British forces The world leaders in strategic retreats.
Norway,Netherlands, Belgium and France,Dunkirk in 1940
Greece, Crete,Hong Kong and Libya in 1941
Tobruk and Dieppe,Singapore in 1942
The French/Dutch/Poles watched as Brooke and Bernard at Dunkerque take to the fishing boats as they were taking bullets. Sure Empire Go across the channel and ask them blisterhead.Shouldn't take you 4 full years like it did bernard. I'd advise every one to read THE FULL MONTY, that's johnny's hero
RIP Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery.
Umm
"Self-control": that's a lost message today--cf with John MacArthur's recent sermon. "Christ Is Sufficient for All Your Crises."
Montgomery was a bigger hindrance to the allied war effort than the Germans.
Thanks, Stephen E Ambrose.
Why?
This turkey must be American.
drivel
Yes it is drivel you poofs sat on you estates while all of Colonials were run thru the shredder.John Burns and Dawes same deluded twat waffle - GET HELP
Unn
He did nothing but wait in Africa for his force was built up to 3 times the size of the Germans and they were also short of everything when he had it all, he sacrificed many of the best troops he had by sending them in without any support just like in a WW1 style charge and he still nearly lost at el Alamein and only probably winning because Rommel wasn't there, his failures in Europe cost the Allies a lot of time , men and resources and was not trusted at all by Eisenhower who had to put up with him because of politics and Churchill who was the worst military strategist around.
Not really.