re: #140 wozzablog

Yeah, most of the US takes on him tend to be implicitly critical, somehow, as though he’s starting from behind the 8-ball. I don’t see him making more mistakes than Bradley, for example, and exactly as you say, in North Africa— whatever opportunities he may have missed, he developed a plan and delivered on it, which, if you can consistently do it, is how wars are won.

They tend to focus on his self-promotion a lot, whereas I think the position of general is so political that everyone at that rank has got to be good, in some way, at self-promotion, and that’s what being criticized is Monty’s style of self-promotion.