It was not incompetence that caused Eisenhower to forsake Berlin. There had already been agreements before 1945 to establish zones of occupation in Germany; Eisenhower decided it was not worth American blood to take a city due to fall under Russian occupation.
Who could have managed the land war in Europe better than Eisenhower? Not Montgomery or Patton; not Bradley; and definitely not Clark. The only general who was a better manager in coalition warfare was Foch, and he was dead those 15 years.
“Eisenhower decided it was not worth American blood to take a city due to fall under Russian occupation.”
What a bunch of BS - The germans would have gladly surrendered to Patton had Eisehower and Roosevelt not already decided to hold Patton back and give half of western civilizaition away to the communists.
Patton could have taken the last two nukes and saved us 50 years of cold war and whatever else Putin is going to do in Syria.
Eisenhower was a traitor.
Foch’s grave is in Paris in the same mausoleum as Napoleon. On top of his sarcophagus is statuary of eight French soldiers in WW1 field coats carrying a casket. Their heads are hung in grief. It is far more memorable than Napoleon’s tomb.
A picture is at wikipedia on the right side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Foch
In fact that is not only true, but why Poland wound up as a satellite country of the Soviet Union. Stalin's finger on a map, in Poland's case.
Imagine if the Battle of the Bulge happened today. Ike would have been hauled before Congress.