Command Structure Quotes
The only soldier ever so honored. MacArthur had a huge ego, and was a shameless self-promoter. However he was never secure enough to have a personal staff of strong independent thinkers the way Dwight Eisenhower and most other high military officers did. The men who stayed on MacArthur’s personal staff tended to be sycophants and toadies and treated him like royalty, hence the remark by General Marshall.
He lost the vote on this issue, and the Congress created the first committee to investigate and oversee military affairs.
The Presidnt Elect illustrated in this quote how informal he was. Many people saw that as being acccessible; others saw it as a sign of no organziation or sense of structure that is needed for any high level political job, much less the presidency.
Written when he was forced to share command with General Francois Kellerman.
Hooker made some very poor decisions as far as Lincoln was concerned.
In Japan at that time there was no civilian control of the military and the military resented any attempt at the civilian government to influence military affairs in any way whatsoever. At the same time the military often tried to influence the politics of civilian government. The Emperor made this feeble effort to inhibit that, but as World War II proved, he had not tried very hard to prevent the military from dominating the country.
