Which says nothing about how Eisenhower mollified Montgomery v. the more competent Patton.
The Germans couldn’t believe Patton being reigned in. They considered him our best war general and he was being boxed out. I understand there are politics no matter what but without the Americans, England would be speaking German. Now its Arabic without a fired shot.
“Which says nothing about how Eisenhower mollified Montgomery v. the more competent Patton.”
Patton never had the chance to battle Rommel. Montgomery did, and he defeated Rommel at 2nd El Alamein. This was before our first troops landed in North Africa.
Rommel considered Montgomery to be a very capable general. Not a tactical genius but a methodical one who used logistics to his advantage.
Patton was a brilliant tactical commander but he ignored logistics. His advance famously stalled not because he was being denied supplies but because he outran the Army’s ability to move gasoline and ammunition forward. At one point he was hijacking supplies headed for other commands.