[Hugin]

So Mac gets credit for all success, and blame for failure goes to subordinates? Compare that to Ike who was prepared to take the failure of D-Day entirely on himself. Maybe he should have left Tokyo and seen for himself. But what he was hearing coincided with his own bias. He foolishly held the ability of the Chinese soldier in contempt.

[Snickering Hound]

So Mac gets credit for all success, and blame for failure goes to subordinates? Compare that to Ike who was prepared to take the failure of D-Day entirely on himself. Maybe he should have left Tokyo and seen for himself. But what he was hearing coincided with his own bias. He foolishly held the ability of the Chinese soldier in contempt.

Almond was a MacArthur crony that called the Chinese a bunch of laundrymen that would run when fired at.

MacArthur wouldn't be the first American general to distrust what his intelligence was telling him and instead trusting subordinates on the ground.

There were massive casualties at The Bulge and Pearl Harbor thanks to that.