Word: pattonism
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...heavily on surprise. "Nasser disposed his troops very well," said an Israeli colonel. "Egyptian preparations were quite logical. Our plans were not." But more than anything else, the Israelis, inferior to the Egyptians in number and equipment, relied on the kind of dashing, hard-driving tactics with which George Patton confounded the Germans in his 1944 armored dash across Europe. Israeli units which outran their supply continued to push forward as long as they had ammunition, and at least one battalion fought for two days without food...
...grand celebration at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, with Ike roaring out Casey Jones and Abdul the Bulbul Ameer and receiving a note of congratulation from another officer upon whom the hand of history lay. The Command and General Staff school must be good, opined Major George Smith Patton Jr., if "A he-man can come out No.1...
...comer, Ike was yanked away to serve as chief of staff to General Walter Krueger's Third Army in the big Louisiana Maneuvers in the fall of 1941. There he handled the movements of 270,000 men so brilliantly that the rival Second Army was "annihilated" (except George Patton, who turned up with a force of Second Army tanks in Eisenhower's rear). This stunning victory opened the eyes of Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, and soon Ike began moving surefootedly upward through the stars of generalship. Right after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made him assistant chief...
...horns, and eliminate it all, and that is what we have done." Ike's point, in line with his insistence on the facts and the truth: as a military commander he personally had put integration into effect even over the objection of some of his generals ("General Patton, who at first was very much against this, became the most rabid supporter of the idea"); then, as President, he had finished the job begun under the Truman Administration...
...companies increase their civic work, the heaviest load inevitably falls on the president himself. Just as he has the know-how, energy and contacts to make his business succeed, so is he invaluable to civic projects. Republic Steel's President Thomas F. Patton, Detroit Edison's President Walker L. Cisler, Chairman Laurence Whittemore of New England papermaker Brown Co., give anywhere from 10% to 30% of their time to civic projects. In Los Angeles, Hardwareman-Banker Vic Carter was so busy that he either had to cut down his civic activities or his business. His choice: to sell...