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Amazon.com Moving the Chains Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything 9780374214449 Charles P. Pierce BooksI have read a lot of biographies of Payton and Einstein, but Brady? Please elaborate
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Amazon.com Moving the Chains Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything 9780374214449 Charles P. Pierce BooksI have read a lot of biographies of Payton and Einstein, but Brady? Please elaborate
Is that the guy who served under Payton? And he became a general and his boss?
No grant was a military genius and a political bumbling fool, payton was the best of the bestMilitarily, Patton was a genius
Politically, he was a moron
Brady is better
Pleeeeezzzze!
Careful...you may inspire me to expose George Marshall.....and you won't like it.
"One example of George Marshall's understanding of military science: He was testifying before a Senate committee in the summer of 1940, after the German break-through in France.
A senator asked him whether the army knew how to stop tanks. Marshall said he believed the jeep was the answer to the tank. To the flabbergasted senators, he explained: "As I conceive it, hundreds of jeeps will swarm over the battlefield, each of them towing a 37 millimeter anti-tank gun. That way we will put the tanks out of business."
As it turned out, the 37 millimeter anti-tank guns Marshall was talking about wouldn't stop a light tank at close range, but that was beside the point. What the German tiger and panther tanks might have done to a fleet of jeeps racing out on a battlefield would have been a spectacle."
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 118-119
The Jeep helped win the war
The concept was the lethality of the guns towed to the point of battle, not the Jeeps themselves
Yes 1940 was a turning point for our military forces. We had maybe the seventh strongest military in the world. Thanks to the military excallation lead by Gen Marshall, we went from a third rate military power to a super power
I wonder what gave Gen. Marshall such crazy ideas.
37MM AT gun?
Can you name one German tank that the 37MM could pen?
I can name several, in fact in 1940 that would be most German tanks. The Panzer 1, Panzer II, Panzer III, Czech Lt-35 and Lt-38, everything in the German arsenal at the time except the frontal armor of a Panzer Mk 4.
That's actually a good answer! And had we fought the Germans in 1940, that would have been effective.
Also, Rommel had suggested that instead of concentrating on building tanks, the Germans should have build more towed 8.8 to fight the Russians who had the habit of charging head long into kill zones
By the time we actually crossed swords with them in 1943 we needed the 76 to pen the Mark IV's and the 90mm to have a chance at a Tiger (in service since 1942). I always thought it was negligent that we sent the Shermans into combat knowing they were under-armored and outgunned. It was Patton and the armor commanders that made the difference
Now I remember who Bradley was, useless forgotten in history
Now I remember who Bradley was, useless forgotten in history
These board games are interesting, I move Patton here and so forth, but perhaps the biggest pawn to be reckoned with was the American people. Would they have tolerated America going to war with the USSR? We had already begun our dismantling the army and preparing for the peace that would soon follow.
Patton was old blood and guts and Bradley "aNow I remember who Bradley was, useless forgotten in history
A knee slapping, but nonsense quote. Shows what Patton thought of his men also. He considered the ones who died following his orders as "poor dumb bastards"."No bastard ever won a war dying for his coutry. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - G. Patton
That's the view I take with enhanced interrogation.
A knee slapping, but nonsense quote. Shows what Patton thought of his men also. He considered the ones who died following his orders as "poor dumb bastards"."No bastard ever won a war dying for his coutry. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - G. Patton
That's the view I take with enhanced interrogation.
He pretty much thought of everyone that way, believing himself to be a combined reincarnation of the greatest warriors in history. He viewed himself as god like or at least a messenger from god.A knee slapping, but nonsense quote. Shows what Patton thought of his men also. He considered the ones who died following his orders as "poor dumb bastards"."No bastard ever won a war dying for his coutry. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - G. Patton
That's the view I take with enhanced interrogation.
He would have considered you just a simple minded bastard.
A knee slapping, but nonsense quote. Shows what Patton thought of his men also. He considered the ones who died following his orders as "poor dumb bastards"."No bastard ever won a war dying for his coutry. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - G. Patton
That's the view I take with enhanced interrogation.
He pretty much thought of everyone that way, believing himself to be a combined reincarnation of the greatest warriors in history. He viewed himself as god like or at least a messenger from god.A knee slapping, but nonsense quote. Shows what Patton thought of his men also. He considered the ones who died following his orders as "poor dumb bastards"."No bastard ever won a war dying for his coutry. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - G. Patton
That's the view I take with enhanced interrogation.
He would have considered you just a simple minded bastard.
Patton was a useful tool and Ike used him for those jobs Patton might accomplish, and for other jobs Patton was a problem and put on hold. The genius was that Ike knew the difference. Chic's posts make me more of an Ike fan than before and less of a Patton fan. Thanks