What do you think of about Montgomery? For most people, the first thing that comes to mind is the Battle of El Alamein, which he commanded. But many began to question Montgomery's military prowess, after all, his opponent Rommel's coalition was not in the best shape.
So let's take a fresh look at the battle and see if Montgomery can really win on its own.
During World War II, Italy's performance was very bad, not even enough to fight alone, and as a German Nazi who signed the agreement, naturally did not allow its allies to fail, after all, the lips were cold, so Germany sent Rommel to North Africa to save the war. The arrival of Rommel stabilized the situation in Africa. At the same time, Montgomery came to Africa to take over as commander of the British Eighth Army. Always cautious, he also broke the previous conservative style and decisively ordered an attack, which is actually not difficult to understand.
It was because of the disparity in strength of the war, which in Montgomery's view was a war that would not be lost for the British army. Britain had an absolute superiority in military equipment, and Rommel had difficulty getting support. Even if the Germans had additional resources to redeploy to North Africa, German supplies would not be able to reach, and such a war really did not know how to lose. So what reason did Montgomery have to lose the battle? The word retreat in such a battle is basically impossible.
Therefore, in the following battles, Montgomery made full use of his own advantages and concentrated a large number of superior forces, which allowed the German defenses to be broken everywhere. In the end, the helpless Rommel had to retreat all the German troops.
Although montgomery succeeded in breaking the myth of Rommel in terms of results, this does not mean how good he is, the Battle of El Alamein was a huge advantage for the Allies, but Montgomery was able to make full use of his strengths, avoid his weaknesses, and completely defeated the German and Italian defenses in a short period of time, which did reflect his excellent command ability.
But strictly speaking, Montgomery can only be called average. He still has a long way to go compared to Rommel's many victories in desperate situations, and finally get out of trouble and create myths. This is mainly because Montgomery's performance in World War II can only be called normal. Montgomery's other achievements, such as the command of dunkol's retreat, were not key figures, and at that time he was far from commanding all his troops, and his impact on the operation was minimal. In the same war he played a far less important role than the American general George Patton, whose entire army was demoralized by the Germans in the Soviet Union due to the fiasco of the Germans in the Soviet Union. Such a German army unit, the combat effectiveness is very weak, can only do trapped beast fighting.
In the war situation at that time, due to the fiasco of the Germans in the Soviet Union, the morale of their entire army was at a disadvantage. When fighting the US army, the equipment of the US army was already the top batch of the two countries, and in the face of such an opponent, the German army had no ability to fight back.
So in this way, the battles on the Western Front are very simple operations, which do not reflect the level of a commander. As for Montgomery's ability to gain great prestige, it now seems that it was actually the political necessity of the time. Heroic characters were most needed during the war, and although the Allies at that time were called allies, such a figure was missing in comparison, and in order to improve morale or deter other enemies, such a figure was introduced.
For such reasons, it is not surprising that Montgomery is not recognized, in the eyes of the public, this is just a mascot-like figure, and with the end of World War II, more people remember Patton and even Rommel, but Montgomery's strength is far less than the two, it is no wonder. But in any case, this is a hero from the Second World War, although his role is not very great, but also contributed to peace, we can not deny this war for other reasons, after all, we still yearn for peace, the soldiers who sacrificed for peace we should remember, and we should remember every general in it.