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Patton is basically an American Rommel in a variety of ways from my readings of the man... if Rommel was from the cavalry corps. His biggest flaw is that he didn't recognize the greater picture being incredibly important. Another thing that makes Patton different than MacArthur is that he...

Yeah and people still think isolationism is still a thing when in reality that has been long obsolete...

True, because people thought that the US can be isolationist again when in reality, that time was long past...

Only because he wasn't using WW2 leftovers, which was what all that was in Korea for a good portion of the conflict. You get further when most of your weapons aren't literally a good decade and change out of date...

However, Truman was only going to use them as a weapon of last resort and not as an opening salvo of a campaign, something that McArthur wanted to do with said nukes. McArthur was also infamous as a military maverick within the US military and was absolutely hated by the majority of the US...

Until Truman went 'what the fuck are you smoking McArthur!' and fired McArthur when he and his posse wouldn't let up.

That is what I stated when I quoted ATP, we didn't know at the time and thus our only possible answer to Russian aggression was literally nuclear genocide...

That really isn't the case, oddly enough. On paper, the USSR had far more divisions on the frontline, the problem is that all those divisions are barebones at best and the USSR was heavily reliant on US food and fuel supplies until the 1950s or so when they've managed to get their native...

No, the thing is that at the time the US and its allies didn't have the information we do today about soviet troop concentrations. We thought -at the time- they spammed divisions and brigades when in reality said brigades and divisions were as barebones as you can get. It should also be noted...