Market Garden is a good example of a great battle plan that was flawed because it relied to heavily on faulty intelligence assessments.
It was believed that the Germans had mainly low quality troops in the Netherlands and that it was a good place to attack.Well we all know that it did not turn out that way.I have read that Allied high command received decrypted intelligence that crack German units had very recently been placed in the but that intel was not passed down to lower commands.
It proves the advice from the Art of War "appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" a similar suggestion was "pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance".
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