Editing Bernard Montgomery (section)

====Military opinions====
Montgomery twice met Israeli general [[Moshe Dayan]]. After an initial meeting in the early 1950s, Montgomery met Dayan again in the 1960s to discuss the [[Vietnam War]], which Dayan was studying. Montgomery was harshly critical of US strategy in Vietnam, which involved deploying large numbers of combat troops, aggressive bombing attacks, and uprooting entire village populations and forcing them into [[Strategic Hamlet Program|strategic hamlets]]. Montgomery said that the Americans' most important problem was that they had no clear objective, and allowed local commanders to set military policy. At the end of their meeting, Montgomery asked Dayan to tell the Americans, in his name, that they were "insane".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historynet.com/moshe-dayan-sounds-the-alarm-in-vietnam-3.htm|title=Moshe Dayan Sounds the Alarm in Vietnam|date=15 September 2011|access-date=16 August 2012}}</ref>

During a visit to the Alamein battlefields in May 1967, he bluntly told high-ranking [[Egyptian Army]] officers that they would lose any war with Israel, a warning that was shown to be justified only a few weeks later in the [[Six-Day War]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=James|first1=Laura|title=Nasser and His Enemies: Foreign Policy Decision Making in Egypt on the Eve of the Six Day War|location=Herzliya, Israel|publisher=MERIA Journal|year=2005}}</ref>