re: #152 Obdicut

All the accounts of MacArthur I’ve read, though, lead me to the conclusion that we were lucky to avoid even greater disasters with him defending the Phillipines. He was classically out of touch. I think you do have generals who fluidly prioritize between being front-line leaders and HQ commanders as needed. I think they were probably more common in the olden days when you had to fight personally in battles anyway.

MacArthur… Gah. Incompetence, arrogance & an ego even bigger than Patton’s. It’s a good thing he was stuck in the Pacific where he only cost the American troops their lives but wasn’t able to utterly lose a campaign as he would have in the ETO. Even that idiot Clark was more comptent in Italy.