Re MacArthur; The General was a brilliant commander. A General in ww1, a 5star general in ww2 and a Field Marshall in Korea. He was the most decorated American soldier in ww1. The only field grade officer (or above) he ever met on the battle field in France was LtC George Patton (another great commander). Unlike most high ranking officers he choose to lead from the front and not from the safety of the rear. In ww1 he was ordered "take that hill or turn in a 100% causality report including you". He gave similar orders to the great generals that served under him in ww2. He trained Eisenhower. Ike served under him in the Philippines before ww2. MacArthur had an eye for talent and recruited excellent officers into his command. Omar Bradley would not have made the cut, Patton would and it would have been fun to watch the drama of those two giant egos serving together.
The US has no plan to defend the Philippines, the US Navy's plan was to fire up their boilers and get back to Hawaii as fast as they could. Everyone knew the Japanese would take the Philippines. MacArthur choice to fight on the beach rather then execute the planned retreat to Bataan. But their was nothing he could do to stop the Japanese. He was brilliant during the rest of the war after losing on the beach.
Not many people know this but during Korean War, the idiot Truman, send the 7th fleet to patrol the Taiwan straight. Why to insure that the Nationalist Chinese did not invade China. China had a very large force stationed there to repel any invasion from Taiwan. Guess where all those troops went? Yup Korea, if you want to blame someone for China's entry into the Korean war blame the idiot Truman.
MacArthur did an excellent Job of civilizing the Japanese during his occupation of Japan.
The General had his faults but generalship was not one of them. The author is a f'ing idiot. The left does not like MacArthur because he was know as "the republican general".
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