Episode 64: Market Garden Was A Good Idea. Prove Me Wrong

Hot take: Operation Market Garden, the massive, ambitious Allied failure in the Netherlands in September 1944 was a good idea. That's the argument Dr. John Bonin, American historian with the US Army War College, makes in episode 64.   We're at the 77th anniversary of Operation Market Garden (17 to 25 September, 1944) and this episode is the 2nd in a 9-part series about Operation Market Garden that will run across 9 days (17 to 25 September 2021) in commemoration.   John Bonin is a Professor of Concepts and Doctrine at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Previously, he was the Scholar in Residence for the Army Heritage Center Foundation.   Prior to his retirement from the Army in June 2002 as a colonel, his assignments included deputy commander of the 194th Armored Brigade at Fort Knox, Kentucky and Director of Army Planning and General George C. Marshall Chair for Military Studies of the U.S. Army War College, where he served for seven years after graduating in 1995. Commissioned in the Infantry from the U.S. Military Academy in 1972, he obtained a Master’s degree in military history from Duke University. In 2006, he earned a PhD in history from Temple University.