MAX HASTINGS | When generals play politics, wars get lost
Mark Milley’s testimony shows how military leaders are getting squeezed in the military-civilian divide
04 October 2021 - 18:26
Everybody loves even the weakest members of a winning team, and that goes for soldiers as well as sportsmen. In World War 2, such US generals as Omar Bradley and Courtney Hodges, like their British counterparts Harold Alexander and Henry Wilson, came home popular heroes even though some of their uniformed peers did not think much of them. ..
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