Why our Generals Were More Successful in World War II

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1. German generals > US and other allied generals . The advantage to the US was resources and (well) resources.
2. Cuz we got pissed off after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, realized it wasn't over and took it to em!
3. Because there wasn't any political correctness.
4. Patton was lousy in the defense? No, Patton didn't believe in defense because it makes you a sitting duck.
5. While many of my views on this subject have already been said in the comments I would just like to point out one big thing. WWII generals took actions that would be unacceptable by today's standards. They bombed cities into oblivion, that attacked civilian heavy targets with overwhelming force, and the war ended with 2 nukes being dropped on Japan.
6. Douglas MacArthur had his mettle tested both in WW2 and in Korea facing dire situations where the massive US war making capacity was delayed in making an impact. Stilwell was a failure with limited resources, being forced out of Burma after wasting the best units of the Chinese army. Wainwrite surrendered when there was no hope of resupply. No other US army commander ever had to face a crisis that could not be mastered by simply throwing more men and material at it. I wonder how Patton would have performed if he had been in command of German 9th Army in December of 1941 when that army was fighting for it's life against forty or so fresh Russian divisions.
7. This guy has no idea what he is talking about. He educated himself into a blind corner. The real reason why the military hasnt accomplished anything lasting or significant since 1945 is because officers have been trained to be tool bags for an unaccountable military industrial intelligence complex. They go on military adventures for petro dollars to prop up corrupt banks. A bell hop has more meaningful work in uniform. The only thing they are concerned with is their career and padding their resume for Lockheed and Raytheon for when they retire. Not all of them, but most of them. Elitism and careerism are the orders of the day since 1945. These guys will go down in history as losers who had the biggest most expensive military in history yet lost everything they touched since 1945. Even the cold war has to be done twice. Why? Apparently it's all just a jobs program for officers in the military complex. A soldier who loses a rifle faces more consequences than generals who perpetually lose wars for over 70 years now. In a word, elitism is our undoing. They probably need to fire anyone who graduated from a military service academy since 1945 because based on their actual results, they've obviously all been trained wrong for over 70 years now. Trained bell hops to carry baggage for private banks.
8. Mark Clarke Italy June 1944. Disobeyed a order and appeared to be more concerned with the kudos of capturing Rome than cutting off and surrounding. a retreating German Army.  Certainly in this instance not a team player.  Why did he avoid being relieved?
9. the brittish officers were comlete badasses by the way. there's story's of them strolling around a battlefield like it was a sunday afternoon with bullets wizzing around them and not being fazed one bit.
10. Ricks is certainly no S.L.A. Marshall. He has some things right, but a lot wrong. He's certainly in love with himself.
11. The American strategic situation was extremely favourable to begin with. They had more industrial capacity, manpower and technological capacity than any nation to begin with. All while having an unthreatened homefront and plenty of time to plan their actions.
    
    The WW2 generals would not have done better in the other wars fought by the US, like Vietnam.
12. In reality historians should focus more the role of air and sea war of WW2 than land war. American and British think tanks had their own civil war until 1942 Roosevelt and his trusted pro Navy-Air War commanders won that war and men of past (like Marshall was) was pushed to marginal. Roosevelt was right: Navy and Air Force were priorities.
13. The value of US Navy vessels took part in Marianas operation even without their immense logistic chain of transport vessels and smaller landing vessels was incredible during that time - about $3 billion. Comparing the value of German war machine in Kursk we understand it better. German armor, artillery, smaller weapons, aircraft, trucks had value less than $250 million. It tells how techno American war machine in Pacific was compare those armies of Germany and Soviet Union.
14. Why our generals were more successful?
    Easy.
    If the own side has a large superiority in numbers and mountains of resources, a few mistakes can be easily brushed off....
15. We will never know because dumb-ass Hitler did not let his Generals do their jobs as well as they could have.
16. Well, Hitler was a mad man who ordered his generals to do things that were not right from strategical point of view, but they worked for his ideology and political reasons, like attacking Russia without preparing for winter, or helping Italy in Greece and Africa, and Italy was dragging them down. Germany had to deal with saboteurs and guerillas (they were sabotaing V1 and V2 rockets, attacked military trains and trucks, rapair stations, and managed to destroy huge transports of deuter, that could be used by Germans to make atom bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage and this guy is national hero of Greece -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Iwanow-Szajnowicz he did a lot of damage to Germans).
17. The finest allied commander during ww2 was William Slim, what he did it turning the British 14th  army around and routing 2 entire Japanese armies was amazing
18. Before closing this after listening to 200 seconds of rambling, I realized this video should have been titled "All about some dude that has nothing to do with world war II in any way shape or forum and therefore, completely off topic of the video title."
    
    I hope you and others have videos about rambling in the future.
    Good bye.
19. It would seem that Marshall didn't follow his own criteria for what qualities a General Officer must possess when he selected and ensured Omar, "I never read a book in my life and I am as dumb as a freaking rock" Bradley became an Army Group commander and CSA after WWII. Good lord, what a pathetic excuse for a senior officer.
20. It would seem that Marshall didn't follow his own criteria for what qualities a General Officer must possess when he selected and ensured Omar, "I never read a book in my life and I am as dumb as a freaking rock" Bradley became an Army Group commander and CSA after WWII. Good lord, what a pathetic excuse for a senior officer.