Lieutenant Colonel Kiley the Intelligence Officer

Despite all the overt inaccuracies with the BATTLE OF THE BULGE, there is one accurate fact.
In the U.S. First Army there was an intelligence officer who vainly tried to arouse interest with the higher brass about the Wehrmacht's potential for an offense late in the war. I'm not sure if the intelligence officer pointed to the Ardennes. I'd have to research that. But suffice to say, the intelligence officer was told in reply that he must be suffering from battle fatigue.
There's a reason why U.S. ARMY Military Intelligence is often ridiculed as military non-intelligence. But it's really not their fault. Oh yes, U.S. Army military intelligence is quite capable of garnering ample accurate intelligence but it's worthless if the American generals and political civilian leadership dismiss the information because of politics, careerism, self-delusion, geopolitics, realpolik, bureaucratic infighting, jealously, you name it. The military-civilian political dogma in late 1944 was that Germany was finished and quite incapable of further offensive action. I should know how things work in the military and civilian corporations. I've worked in both. Individuals who question the prevailing dogma are not given the benefit of the doubt that perhaps their sincerity is genuine and their information might be useful. Instead their careers are jeopardized due to, "questionable judgment", "inappropriate comments", "questionable loyalty to the organization". The U.S. Army top military leadership and civilian leadership would still not learn their lesson five years later. Red Chinese divisions surrounded, surprised and routed the honorable U.S. 1st Cavalry Division at Unsan in far northern Korea. Five-star general Douglas McArthur kept dismissing the presence of Chinese troops and everyone around him were too afraid to question or gainsay the big man.

I liked Henry Fonda's likable, personable LTC Kiley character. I actually wished there would be more guys like that in the real U.S. Army. I had a hard time accepting his begging the second lieutenant pilot to fly the rickety prop scout piper cub plane. The lieutenant colonels I knew wouldn't have wasted time begging. They would have quickly stuck their finger one inch away from the young lieutnenant's face and snarled threats like, "You listen to me you f@@king second lieutenant! You better not f@@king dare question my order! You get your f@@king a$$ into that f@@king plane right now and fly or so help me I'll have your f@@king ass in a f@@king sling so help me god! So get your goddamn f@@king a$$ into that plane and take me up, goddam right f@@king now, you hear me?!!!" I'm not saying all lieutenant colonels would respond that way, but too many I met or came across, including full colonels wouldn't hesitate one second to resort to that verbal thuggery. And in real life, that second lieutenant, appropriately cowed, would cower and grovel and slip into that airplane and fly. And don't even think about that lieutenant trying to contact his own superiors for support. His own superiors, worried about their careers and not wanting to cross swords with a division staff lieutenant colonel would have probably sworn back at that helpless lieutenant for jeopardizing their careers and in the end ordered his a$$ into the airplane to help LTC Kiley. I've never come across lieutenant colonels who were that chummy with second lieutenants. Also, the LTC Kiley character was previously a law enforcement professional. He would have been very detached and assertive and while not arrogant or cold, wouldn't have been chummy.