I find it interesting how great of a soldier MacArthur could be, but he also made some really poor decisions. I wonder if he was somewhere else during the war how differently things would have gone.
I think partly it’s ‘being in the right job at the right time’. Imagine if Patton hadn’t been relieved of command of the 7th Army? Would he have commanded at Salerno? Anzio? Would the US Army have permitted it’s best tank commander to lead an invasion (Italy) where tanks were merely a supporting arm? We’ve done stupider things!