 British infantry was lacking in suitable junior officers and non-commissioned officers, which inhibited small-unit tactics.In Biddle's analysis,

The Germans, by contrast, made great efforts to conceal their forces—moving under cover of dark, off the main roads, in small units and under radio silence.Simon Trew wrote that "the first estimates of Allied losses for Operation Goodwood appeared horrific, that Second Army had lost G. S. Jackson gave losses in the armoured divisions from as Michael Reynolds quoted the 21st Army Group war diary of casualties in I and VIII Corps of Operation Atlantic cost the Canadians from Colonel Charles Perry Stacey gave casualties of all Canadian units in Europe, for the four days' fighting as all categories; were killed or died of wounds.