General Slim is one of my favourite WW 2 personalities. When Slim took over the Far East command, things started to happen. I read an account of how Slim was viewed by certain members of the brass with upper class pedigree. The citicisms of the man were foolish at best. What the author said was very interesting. Many of these officers never learned they had made a mistake. They usually blamed failure on their officers or men or equipment etc. Slim on the other hand took failure very personally and realized he did something wrong. And he never made the same mistake twice.
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