Best American General of All Time?

[Smitty-48]

[Speaker to Animals]

Good interview.

[heydaralon]

Good shit! A legend.

[Smitty-48]

Good shit! A legend.

As I say, contrary to the Hollywood Liberal Panty Waist portrayal of him as being Buck Turgidson?

Was in fact a mild mannered ultra professional, who simply understood that thermonuclear war was real.

[heydaralon]

Good shit! A legend.

As I say, contrary to the Hollywood Liberal Panty Waist portrayal of him as being Buck Turgidson?

Was in fact a mild mannered ultra professional, who simply understood that thermonuclear war was real.

Strategic Air Command Nigga!

[Smitty-48]

Good shit! A legend.

As I say, contrary to the Hollywood Liberal Panty Waist portrayal of him as being Buck Turgidson?

Was in fact a mild mannered ultra professional, who simply understood that thermonuclear war was real.

Strategic Air Command Nigga!

Peace Through Strength :salutes:

[heydaralon]

It always surprises me how these folks can be so Zen and chill with the responsibility they are given. Have you ever seen The Fog of War? McNamara seems avuncular in the doc. Had a crazy life with stress that would have broken me in half, but he just calmly lays it all out. I do think McNamara was torn up inside and riddled with guilt over the way the war turned out, but outwardly it did not appear so. A rare breed.

[Smitty-48]

It always surprises me how these folks can be so Zen and chill with the responsibility they are given. Have you ever seen The Fog of War? McNamara seems avuncular in the doc. Had a crazy life with stress that would have broken me in half, but he just calmly lays it all out. I do think McNamara was torn up inside and riddled with guilt over the way the war turned out, but outwardly it did not appear so. A rare breed.

McNamara says therein, in effect; LeMay was the best of the best.

[Smitty-48]

LeMay was also one of the last American General's to truly be in command.

It was his war plan, it was his formation, it was LeMay's call, once the NCA gave the go codes.

More authority at his disposal on the battlefield, than Ulysses S. Grant himself.

[heydaralon]

LeMay was also one of the last American General's to truly be in command.

It was his war plan, it was his formation, it was LeMay's call, once the NCA gave the go codes.

More authority at his disposal on the battlefield, than Ulysses S. Grant himself.

Lets say we didn't drop Fat Man and Little Boy on the nips. Would firebombing them repeatedly to the point of redundancy like LeMay was doing have caused Japan to surrender eventually without an invasion? If so, how much longer could they have held out? In this thought experiment we are assuming that Russia doesn't declare war on them like it did irl.