LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM PATTON STILL APPLY TODAY
Fri, 06/03/2022 - 18:55
Soldiers in today’s Army can learn much from Gen. George Patton’s leadership style and actions during World War II, author Stephen Moore said June 1 during an Association of the U.S. Army Noon Report webinar.
Patton fought in nearly every major American 20th century conflict and earned a reputation as “one of America’s greatest battlefield commanders,” according to the National World War II Museum website.
“Although many of Patton’s campaign tactics can be questioned … the underlying traits of a strong leader and his training techniques are very evident,” said Moore, who wrote Patton’s Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton’s Rise to Glory. “He was not a man who was afraid to get his own hands dirty. He inspired men to believe that success was possible with the right mindset. He believed … that leaders should lead from the front.”
In Patton’s Payback, Moore writes about how Patton reinvigorated a defeated Army corps to claim victory over Germany’s Erwin Rommel.
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