Patton, or MacArthur?
For WWII....Patton. And he was right about Russia, but he respected the chain of command too much to buck it. A shame he met an artificial and untimely end by the powers that be....
For the Korean War...MacArthur. He was right about China - we should have drove straight through to Beijing. It would have eliminated 2 major current problems being dealt with today.
MacArthur is rightfully respected in military history circles...but if he'd shown the same chutzpah in WWII that he showed in the Korean War...the Iron Curtain may never have been a thing in Eastern Europe....
Just sayin'....
Oh for fugk sake.
Patton was right about everything. And vocalized it like nobody else.
Yes, he was. And Patton paid for it, too. If it weren't for the "untimely car accident" and the "unforeseen heart problems", Patton would've been kicking ass in Korea, and he would NOT of stopped at the Yaloo...
Instead, MacArthur was the most experienced when Korea came around. He was right about the Chinese coming across to aid North Korea. He was dead set about going across the river to beat the Chinese there, and that's what got him relieved of command.
If memory serves me right...the Chinese came across the river just after MacArthur was relieved, taking advantage of the change in leadership chaos to beat our forces back down the peninsula. When we got our legs back underneath us, we again beat the Communist forces back up the peninsula - Chinese and NorK combined this time. When we crossed the DMZ, the Chinese FORCED the NorK's to sign the cease-fire, to prevent our forces from taking it all the way to Beijing.
