I don't think he overruled his commanders, just that the majority were crap.
So was Mussolini, Hitler was actually quite competent with strokes of genius, he just took too many decisions on his own shoulders.I don't think he overruled his commanders, just that the majority were crap.
Yet Ike was reluctant to sack him as he was well connected politically and Ike already was eyeing up his options when the war ended
Monty had many personal problems, but being a pathological liar wasn't one of them. In fact one of Monty's major problems was his tendancy to tell people the truth as he saw it, despite the offense it might causeBritinAfrica, I wouldn't take anything Montgomery said as gospel. The man was a pathological liar.
Right. Evidence of that is the fine-standing he had with his troops.
I always thought his problem was this- the difference between God and Monty was that God did not walk down the street thinking he was Monty.
They did sail from one disaster to another but, with optimism each time that they would win, this time.But can you really single Nagumo out as in my opinion the IJN was a giant waste of metal, it was poorly used and badly led right from the start.
After Pearl Harbor which as you have indicated was mismanaged the Japanese surface fleet just seemed to sail from one disaster to the next.
Point well taken! -AdrianI have no doubt that the Japanese were always going to lose the war, it was probably the only thing Yamamoto got right when he said that he could buy Japan 6 months by striking Pearl Harbor.
In the end I think that while I wont disagree that Nagumo was essentially hopeless I really can't separate him from the rest of the Japanese naval command.
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