The Allies’ Near-Catastrophic Intelligence Failure

Be careful what you ask for!
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Nevertheless, on October 8, 1944, General Omar N. Bradley, commander of the U.S. 12th Army Group, told Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allied supreme commander, “If the other fellow would only hit us now! I’d welcome a counterattack. We could kill many more Germans with a good deal less effort if they would only climb out of their holes and come after us for a change.”
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was actually using the lull on the Western Front to reequip and reinforce his garrisons along the West Wall, and Bradley would not have to wait long for a counterattack.