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To: yarddog

Patton was good at a tactical level.

He was never up to par in formulating the logistics war, which was why Bradley superceded him, and why he was not considered in the same league as MacArthur and Eisenhower.

I haven’t studied the British command enough to know who all their big guns were.


30 posted on 03/14/2014 1:06:12 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd

Logistics was Montgomery’s strength. Before El Alamein he worked to get all his equipment and supplies in the right place at the right time until it got to the point that victory was more or less a foregone conclusion once the fighting started. A much under-rated quality in a good general.
The American generals were never really tested in circumstances that required logistical skill, because they were always very well supplied and equipped compared to everybody else in the field (with the exception of MacArthur in the early stages of the war against the Japanese, which didn’t go well for him).


39 posted on 03/14/2014 1:32:58 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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