Tobruk & El Alamein

I thought the presentation on Tobruk was very informative.  It was hard for me to believe that neither side really understood or took advantage of the use of camoflauge until well into the battle.  You would think with all the preperation and planning that go into military operations that would be one issue that would be greatly focused on.  Upon further investigation I found out that this battle resulted in the very first successful halting of the German blitzkrieg panzer attack.  


I am presently in a Nazi Germany history class and one of the key factors as to why the German's failed to win the war was very poor military organization and the lack of logical and well planned operations.  Obviously the battle of El Alamein is a prime example of the Allied forces simply outsmarting the German army.  I know that Montgomery and the allied forces were supplied with better more effective fire power, but it seems very clear that Rommel was simply out-planned and out-manuevered by Montgomery.