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Hindsight is indeed a wonderful thing, The Market Garden plan was a risky one and no-one can dispute that but every plan is risky because unfortunately the enemy normally refuse to comply with ones plan. It is so easy to sit in front of a PC ,as most writers do, and disect operations but they always ignore "the fog od war". As an ex infantryman I can assure you that in most cases the men on the ground have little knowledge of what is happening anywhere that they can't see. The major problem with Market Garden was that the allies had a run of bad luck. Poor intelligence is in fact bad luck, one doesn't go to a supermarket and buy a bag of intelligence, normally intelligence is "bitty" and very often contradictory and someone had to make educated guesses as to which bits are correct and which bits aren't. All it would have needed for Market Garden to be a success was a bit of luck but unfortunately all the luck went the German's way. Playing computer games and reading old reports does not replicate war, in fact nothing replicates war.
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