Posted on 01/26/2023 9:56:03 AM PST by Ozguy1945
Its is Douglas MacArthurs 143rd birthday.
Was he the 1950's equivalent of Donald Trump?
The times when he showed great leadership were many.
He modernised Wrest Point, asking when he had recently begun the task post World War One, "Why are we still preparing for the War Of 1812?"
He resisted Australians who wanted to betray their own country in WW2 and surrender half the continent to Japan above the Brisbane line because he knew the all conquering Japanese were over extended and could be beaten.
He did that aged in his 60s with island hopping strategic brilliance.
In his 70's he was again strategically brilliant with calculated risk at Incheon.
He defied Truman and the chain of command by publicly pushing for victory against a North Korean government whose continued existence still bedevils the world.
At his worst he was bombastic and arrogant alienating many but not all of those around and inder him.
My late friend Lt Rob Iskov, from Australia's 2nd 14th battalion in which my dad served in WW2, said of MacArthur's often maligned arrogance, that at that time, "We had to have a figurehead."
In 1952 MacArthur was keynote speaker at the RNC but was annihilated by Ike in going for the presidency.
Was MacArthur at all Trumpian in publicly taking on Truman?
To what extent are Donald Trump's weaknesses (compared with DeSantis) like those of MacArthur compared with Ike?
“It is Douglas MacArthur’s 143rd birthday.”
Does he still vote Democrat?
could you include Generals like Curtis Lemay in that list, people who fought total war to win.
Curtis LeMay who ordered fire bombing of Japanese cities killing 100s of thousands of civilians in the process could have been charged with war crimes had the USA lost the war.
He modernised Wrest Point
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Wrest Point needed it.
I shall return!
MacArthur would have finished off Red China once and for all, but his hands were tied.
My gut reaction is that Trump is more like Patton than MacArthur, but I can see the connections.
On the one hand we would never have saved Korea without his brilliant strategy and willingness to risk. On the other hand, we would have saved many lives if we had followed Nimitz’s plan to bypass the Philippines and strangled the main Japanese islands, without having to try to take over the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa before forcing Japan’s surrender in August 1945 via the bomb and the Russian invasion of Manchuria.
You can argue about his military abilities, but his greatest achievement was seeing through Japan’s post-WWII transformation.
Its is Douglas MacArthurs 143rd birthday.
Was he the 1950’s equivalent of Donald Trump?
The times when he showed great leadership were many.
He modernised Wrest Point……..
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Hmm, two major errors so far. I stopped reading right here in order to recommend you get an editor.
Donald Trump’s main weakness is being too forgiving of those who surrounded him only to stab him in the back at every opportunity, such as the ignoble Mikey Pence, but there are many more as well.
They have ego in common that’s for sure. 😏
Got run out of the Philippines. Got run out of South Korea.....TWICE. Got his butt handed to him by the Chinese in North Korea. Got fired for insubordination.
War hero?
Yep. I heard it said recently that DJT has a blind spot when it comes to “human resources”.
I couldn’t agree more, and refusing to shitcan fauci when Peter Navarro literally begged him to early on during covid is a perfect example.
Everybody’s flawed.
The Left just hates strong and successful male leaders.
Ask GEN David Petraeus. Biggest ego I ever saw in uniform.
He acts like he thinks he’s Douglas MacArthur reincarnated.
He isn’t.
“He resisted Australians who wanted to betray their own country in WW2 and surrender half the continent to Japan above the Brisbane line ... “
If true, shame on those Aussies.
Many historians believe that MacArthur was suffering from dementia during and after the Korean War.
I considered myself nothing more than an average officer, but once I figured out “the game”, I.e. what I could get away with out in the field, I welcomed tactical evaluations. For me, it was showtime!
Macarthur was DAMN lucky at Inchon.
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