>>>You're too young to know any soldiers who served under Patton.
>>>It's leadership- getting people to do the things they know they have to do, especially when they think that they can't.
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>Couple of responses:
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>1) Patton didn't have judges in Hawaii contradicting his orders, or congresswomen and Senators second-guessing and criticizing all the way. ;-)
>2) He was a good wartime leader but didn't do quite so well apart from that. Eisenhower called him a "problem child" and contemplated benching him a couple of times, e.g. after he struck two juniors. Not sure you could expect to emulate that today and when they've finished purging all the racist statues, I expect he'll be branded a bully whose statues need to come down because they celebrate white male privileged warmongering/domineering facist behavior patterns that have no place in Rainbow USA.