“Patton paid zero attention to logistics. It wasn’t his job. It wasn’t his staff’s job.”
Patton did not pay close attention to logistics. His staff absolutely did. You don’t keep an entire army moving while paying no attention to logistics. No numbered army exists without logistics planners. It is ONE of the constraints that shape the battle.
Ike needed to make strategic decisions. He did not. Both Monty and Patton were frustrated by his unwillingness to make decisions. He could not make them unilaterally but he needed to provide far more guidance than he did.
“Patton did not pay close attention to logistics. His staff absolutely did.”
Hardly. Logistics was back in England, at the Normandy beach head, at the ports, at the supply dumps. Logistics is the transport and the supply system, not the tip of the spear. That’s not what Patton’s staff was charged with doing.
“Ike needed to make strategic decisions.”
Strategy was determined at Casablanca, Tehran and Yalta. Eisenhower was a junior member among the crew there that set Allied strategy. They considered his opinion. Ike’s job was to implement the strategy given to him by FDR, Churchill, Marshall, the JCS. His bosses.