[SeekAndFind]

I hate to be the spoiler, but since O’Reilley keeps talking about it ( I just heard his interview at the Imus in the Morning drive time radio program ), this is what it is in a nutshell:

Patton was assassinated by Stalin’s minions because he was very close to convincing the powers that be to invade the USSR after the AXIS powers were defeated.

His death ended all that.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Nobody with any intelligence ... especially Patton ...

would ever advocate invading the USSR ...

especially after (arguably) the BEST military in the world (the German Army in 1941) has just failed ...


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[Sherman Logan]

Patton was assassinated by Stalin’s minions because he was very close to convincing the powers that be to invade the USSR after the AXIS powers were defeated.

Sorry, but the theory is ludicrous. The American people would have been almost unanimously opposed to such a war, and the soldiers would have been very difficult indeed to get motivated to fight another war after just winning one and thinking they're about to go home.

Also, the notion that defeating the Red Army was a realistic idea is pretty darn silly.

To be sure, we had The Bomb, but we had very few of them and wouldn't have a large number for quite some time.

[LS]

And that view is nonsense. No one in his right mind would have invaded the USSR in 1945. The US CAPPED its infantry divisions at 89. The Soviets put 100 divisions into a SINGLE offensive. Already there was resistance by GIs and Marines about going to Japan---as "Band of Brothers" points out when Ambrose interviewed the guys about the "point" system.

People just have a tough time believing that "sh@t happens."

As for the comment about MacArthur and Patton vs. Ike, Eisenhower did a fantastic job of placating the Brits while making sure that everyone stayed on focus. And while MacArthur was exceptional, the greatest "general" of the Pacific in terms of casualties per # of men committed was an admiral, Nimitz, who had in his sector Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and yet still lost fewer men proportionally than did Mac.

[martin_fierro]

[oh8eleven]

Patton was assassinated by Stalin’s minions because he was very close to convincing the powers that be to invade the USSR after the AXIS powers were defeated.
I doubt the "powers that be" would have been convinced by anything or anyone.
After VE day, they were too busy planning the invasion of Japan, which would have decimated our already decimated armed forces.
There wouldn't have been enough soldiers in the army left to invade a PX, let alone the USSR.