That’s fine. He’s a bit of a polarizing figure and I have a definite family bias. I can’t say definitively that he was a bad guy and I would probably rather serve under him than some of our current commanders, but that’s a whole nother ball o’ wax.
Anyway, IMHO, older commanders are not a bad idea as long as they are still competent. Their saving grace from my perspective is that older commanders are not driven by promotions, and can afford to be apolitical, if they have the balls.
I would agree. As a continuing student of W.W. II there were certainly enough incompetent military officers all over in the various Allied Commands. But overall I would say we were lucky to have had the breath of experience that we had with those officers in the Allied War structure and when you look at their ages almost all were over the age of 50. Another book I would recommend is one called "The Admirals" by Walter Borneman. It' about all of our Five Star Admirals. I really enjoyed it as I did not know that much about Ernest King and William Leahy and Leahy was almost 70 when the war broke out.