"Staff work suffered under his too-frequent absences and erratic, inconsistent demands."

Signal Towers

This was the description of the eighteen days of Field Marshal Walter Model's command of OB West and Army Group B, on the western European front as described in Cornelius Ryan's A Bridge Too Far.  Model, by his own candid admission, was in over his head.

Though in a situation not nearly as desperate as Field Marshall Model's, I and some of the guys I work with can certainly identify with the German commander's circumstances.  We only wish that those circumstances had lasted only eighteen days.