And a poet, a caveman and a few other lives. Pretty complex individual when you dig into his history.
Flying_Dustbin on
Also liked slapping people with PTSD and pulling guns on them. Oh and he also sent an entire task force into a meat grinder so he could free his son-in-law from a POW camp.
spinosaurs70 on
Things that don’t win post-stone age wars unless the other side dosen’t want to fight include “bravery”, “guts” and “heroism”.
Nuclear-Jester on
“… or you know, we could just use our superior firepower and greater resources, while they are overstretched and fighting in lands unknown to them.”~Zhukov probably
Perfect-Ad2578 on
Didn’t he say after the war we should’ve joined Germany and defeated USSR instead, they were the true enemy? Apparently didn’t have high opinion of Russians and said they were drunken barbarians.
Panzerjaeger54 on
He was not a good general, but he was one of the best the Americans had which says sometthing about the US general staff. You give him any of the problems that faced German or Russian generals on the eastern front like lack of supplies, lack of air cover, low ammunition, no infrastructure, depleted/demoralized units, no replacements, etc etc, he’d get encircled and wiped out in a fortnight.
Edit: dont boo me you know im right.
ETM_143 on
My grandpa was a US Army tanker under Patton during the Bulge. He actually always spoke highly of him.
Edit: if you’re interested, he was qualified to drive the tank, shoot the 75mm gun and use the Ma Deuce. He said they shot down a couple Stuka’s with the 50 cal cruising into Germany. Also, he was made a tanker because he checked a box at basic training that said he’d driven a motor vehicle before. So be careful with those government forms fellas.
Huckleberry-V on
Great leader, awful human being. As usual.
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CommanderCody5501 on
And the moment the Nazis surrendered he went from “kill all the German bastards” straight to “we should never have been fighting the Germans” I think he was legitimately insane most justified cia assassination if a US citizen ever.
cloonatic on
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!
Sun Tzu said that, and I’d say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor.
Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat and then he beat the crap out of every single one.
And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it’s called a ‘zoo’!
Unless it’s a farm!
General George S Patton
BasedAustralhungary on
This guy unironically believed the United States fighted in the wrong side of the war.
Freightshaker000 on
Given total air superiority, massive logistical support, and an enemy on the run, I can’t think of a better commander.
Penguino_2099 on
George Patton was Actually insane, but not in a funny/cool way like MacArthur was.
Big_Statistician_739 on
I mean… Alexander the great thought he was a god so… just because youre crazy doesn’t mean youre not a tactical genius
peaveyftw on
I believe he believed that the Cosmos reincarnated him for every substantive war and then removed him shortly thereafter.
FlyHog421 on
Patton was one of those generals that I would want if I was trying to win a war. Ruthless. Decisive. Operationally brilliant. Inspires his troops to go above and beyond. If the task is to win the war, I want Patton.
But once the war is won, that sumbitch goes in a bunker somewhere secluded from human contact because he’s freakin’ nuts. Thinks he’s a reincarnated Roman soldier. At night he prays to portraits of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson believing them to be God the Father and Jesus, respectively. Thinks the Jews ought to be put back into the camps. Yeah. Total nutjob.
Luminox on
a true wordsmith.
AstroKaiser750 on
That’s because he was
NotSoMajesticKnight on
Patton definitely had a few screws loose, but he got the job done.
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And a poet, a caveman and a few other lives. Pretty complex individual when you dig into his history.
Also liked slapping people with PTSD and pulling guns on them. Oh and he also sent an entire task force into a meat grinder so he could free his son-in-law from a POW camp.
Things that don’t win post-stone age wars unless the other side dosen’t want to fight include “bravery”, “guts” and “heroism”.
“… or you know, we could just use our superior firepower and greater resources, while they are overstretched and fighting in lands unknown to them.”~Zhukov probably
Didn’t he say after the war we should’ve joined Germany and defeated USSR instead, they were the true enemy? Apparently didn’t have high opinion of Russians and said they were drunken barbarians.
He was not a good general, but he was one of the best the Americans had which says sometthing about the US general staff. You give him any of the problems that faced German or Russian generals on the eastern front like lack of supplies, lack of air cover, low ammunition, no infrastructure, depleted/demoralized units, no replacements, etc etc, he’d get encircled and wiped out in a fortnight.
Edit: dont boo me you know im right.
My grandpa was a US Army tanker under Patton during the Bulge. He actually always spoke highly of him.
Edit: if you’re interested, he was qualified to drive the tank, shoot the 75mm gun and use the Ma Deuce. He said they shot down a couple Stuka’s with the 50 cal cruising into Germany. Also, he was made a tanker because he checked a box at basic training that said he’d driven a motor vehicle before. So be careful with those government forms fellas.
Great leader, awful human being. As usual.
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And the moment the Nazis surrendered he went from “kill all the German bastards” straight to “we should never have been fighting the Germans” I think he was legitimately insane most justified cia assassination if a US citizen ever.
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!
Sun Tzu said that, and I’d say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor.
Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat and then he beat the crap out of every single one.
And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it’s called a ‘zoo’!
Unless it’s a farm!
General George S Patton
This guy unironically believed the United States fighted in the wrong side of the war.
Given total air superiority, massive logistical support, and an enemy on the run, I can’t think of a better commander.
George Patton was Actually insane, but not in a funny/cool way like MacArthur was.
I mean… Alexander the great thought he was a god so… just because youre crazy doesn’t mean youre not a tactical genius
I believe he believed that the Cosmos reincarnated him for every substantive war and then removed him shortly thereafter.
Patton was one of those generals that I would want if I was trying to win a war. Ruthless. Decisive. Operationally brilliant. Inspires his troops to go above and beyond. If the task is to win the war, I want Patton.
But once the war is won, that sumbitch goes in a bunker somewhere secluded from human contact because he’s freakin’ nuts. Thinks he’s a reincarnated Roman soldier. At night he prays to portraits of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson believing them to be God the Father and Jesus, respectively. Thinks the Jews ought to be put back into the camps. Yeah. Total nutjob.
a true wordsmith.
That’s because he was
Patton definitely had a few screws loose, but he got the job done.
“I was Alexander the Great’s chief eunuch”