What Mongotmery TOO overly cautious and snail paced in moving his troops in WW2?

Answer 1

On occasion yes, but at times it also played to his advantage.

Answer 2

Montgomery had the experience of WW1 behind him and he was always cautious not to risk the lives of his soldiers in massive attacks without a good preparation.
Normandy, if his troops had not be so cautious they would have had less casualties than now. Once the stalemate was there, most of the Panzer divisions were employed against the British because it was more "tank-country". Now the British had to become also carefully because they had almost no more trained infantry reserves.
Arnhem : Montgomery had certainly not done the attack if he (and most of the generals) had not had the impression it was finished with the Germans. It proved deadly wrong.

Answer 3

Not at Dunkirk!
And he conceived the Market Garden Operation, which was right at the other end of the scale from cautious.

In Normandy, armoured strikes through close "Bocage", country proved very expensive: Epsom, Goodwood...
Following those attempts to find a quicker breakout, it is not clear that there was a better strategy to be found than "bite and hold" operations, especially since the east side of the Normandy beachhead was drawing in the vast majority of the German armoured reinforcements.

Montgomery's Rhine operation was almost certainly too cautious, but after Arnhem, what else was likely?

Montgomery's great strengths were in training, organisation and supply, and the set-piece battle.
His greatest weakness was his personality which, while it gave him great drive and confidence, made him a poor team player.
"In defeat, unbeatable. In victory, insufferable."

Answer 4

Between Mareth and Market Garden, Monty seems to have been loathe to risk his reputation, though it's not clear he had an alternative. The Brits were just learning how to fight modern set-piece battles and had the disasters of the Somme in their memory. The SMLE was a better weapon than the Kar98K, but otherwise they were fighting with inferior equipment.
US military philosophy was for direct and agressive action, but doctrine, training and equipment were all inadequately developed to look on the idea as anything more than naive so long as there was any real German resistance. We Americans are an impatient lot.

Answer 5

No - he was fighting in difficult country for armored vehicles which favored the german defenders.
His troops sucked in most of the german armor and fought it to a standstill which allowed the americans to break out on the right flank and eventually race through Brittany.
Once that happened Montgomery's troops crossed the Seine and chased the Germans all the way back to Holland before winter set in

Answer 6

The Germans didn't think so.