Somehow we have denigrated our military from Washington, MacArthur, Patton, Schwarzkopf to this ******* guy. It’s sad to see. And a whole lot concerning.
MacArthur, Patton, and Schwarzkopf were all jerks.
MacArthur wasted thousands of lives island hopping in the Pacific, when that was just for show.
Once the Japanese fleet was sunk, those islands could have and should have been totally ignored.
MacArthur also wanted to keep using nuclear weapons, even after he knew they were so inhumane and illegal.
If MacArthur has used nuclear weapons on China as he wanted to, Russia would have been forced to retaliate, and the US would be a radioactive wasteland for hundreds of year yet.
Patton did understand tanks because of his cavalry background, but he was partially responsible for the US having the worst tanks in the war.
Too small, too light, useless cannon, and not enough armor.
He had no finesse and only used brute force.
It is just a good thing the air force was there to bail him out, and that the Germans put 90% of their forced on the eastern front.
Schwarzkopf was just a criminal. The Kuwaitis had been stealing Iraqi oil with slant drilling, so Iraq had the legal right to invade, and had asked ambassador Glasspie for permission, which the US gave. So the Highway of Death, where we massacred an Iraqi column retreating under a white flag, negotiated truce, was just a war crime that Schwarzkopf should have been executed for. One of the worst war crimes in all history.