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The General Who Warned Eisenhower About the Ardennes Gap - And Was Ignored for Six Weeks

In late 1944, Colonel Oscar Koch, intelligence chief of U.S. Third Army, warned repeatedly that Germany was preparing a major offensive through the Ardennes Forest. He accurately identified the location, timing, and objectives of what would become the Battle of the Bulge. His warnings, forwarded through General George Patton to higher headquarters, were dismissed by senior Allied intelligence officers who believed Germany lacked the capability for large-scale offensive action. When the German attack began on December 16, 1944, it unfolded almost exactly as Koch had predicted. The failure to heed his assessments exposed deep flaws in Allied intelligence analysis, including confirmation bias and institutional resistance to dissenting views—costing thousands of lives and forever marking one of World War II’s most significant intelligence failures.