How America Lost Its Four Great Generals

How America Lost Its Four Great Generals -- Max Boot, Commentary

The quasi-official ideology of the U.S. armed forces holds that generals are virtually interchangeable, that individual personalities don’t matter much, that ordinary grunts are in any case more important than their leaders, and that what really counts are larger systems that make a complex bureaucracy function. There is some truth to all of this. But for all of the bureaucratic heft of the services and the heroism of ordinary soldiers, it is hard to imagine the Civil War having been won without Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan—or World War II without Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Arnold, LeMay, Nimitz, Halsey, and all the other senior generals and admirals.

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My Comment: My opinion on these Generals is still up in the air .... my only hope now is that they have trained their replacements to do a better job than what they did when they had their moment in the spotlight.