Could Britain have won Market Garden if they had modern SAS squadrons

>>29800422
>>29800422
They could've won if it they didn't let the amerifats to do the thinking

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>>29800430

>>29800422
Probably, but hindsight is always 20/20, they probably couldn't have predicted how difficult it was

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>>29800430
Most American general ever

>>29800441
Well, they could have listened to intelligence when they said that there was an entire Panzer Division in the area.

>>29800430
Please stop making bongs look bad.
The problem was co-operation, Montgomery, as much as he could get the job done, was basically a collosal twat to most of his contemporaries.
>>29800422
Meh, probably, who knows? British tend to do well when outnumbered, with a half arsed plan and half arsed equipment, but lots of balls/a complete disregard for danger.

>>29800550
>Meh, probably, who knows? British tend to do well when outnumbered, with a half arsed plan and half arsed equipment, but lots of balls/a complete disregard for danger.
that explains the Empire really,
'lads, lets go over there and tell those people they now belong to us.'

>>29800527

Except that same source had been compromised not too long before. It was a decision to make on whether it was a bluff.

>>29800605
More like
'Lads, lets go over there, hang about trading for a while and then, over a period of years using political backstabbing and giving power to deposed kings. minorities, small ethnic groups etc in exchange for their unquestioning loyalty, eventually subsume most of a continent without realling having to do anything to dirty'.
Worked pretty well.

>>29800654
>you will never live in a world dominated by the Empire
why even live

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>>29800422
>Could Britain have won Market Garden if they had modern SAS squadrons with modern small arms, SAW, comms and optics, and anti-tank measures?

I'm gonna say no. If they'd had that stuff, they would have made a botched plan with that stuff instead. Bad military planning can't be saved by better equipment and troops.

Look at Operation Eagle Claw, for example. Modern special forces. Modern arms, comms, etc. Fucking rotary wing transport, which is god tier compared to the paratroopers and gliders of Market Garden. And it was still a dog's breakfast due to poor planning.

If you gave Monty and his planners the best troops in the world, he would look at them, take shit for granted, and come up with a bad plan anyway.

Which is pretty much exactly what happened.

>>29800668
>Instead live in a world where the Empire bends over and spreads its cheeks

"C'mon, then, love. Give us a right buggering!"

>>29800422
>I have no mouth and I must operate