A Soldier On Obama

[Cicero]

McCarthur was to a military strategist as McDonalds is to a high class restaurant. If he'd had his way, New Guinea would have fallen to the Japanese.

First off, it's MacArthur.

MacArthur captured all the key positions in New Guinea. His plan did not call for a long campaign along the northern coast of New Guinea. He realized he needed to capture only a few strategic points in order to control the entire island. FDR considered the Pacific theater of war as secondary to the war in Europe, which meant that at no time was MacArthur given priority for equipment and replacements.

He also developed the Island hoping campaign that enabled air bases to be built for attacks on Japan.

He managed to turn the rout of U.N. forces by the North Koreans in 1950, that had them holding on by their teeth at Pusan, into a complete take over of the entire peninsula after the Inchon landing.

If MacDonald's is MacArthur, they would be getting 5 stars in the Michelin guide.

 

[WildCat]

First off, it's MacArthur.

MacArthur captured all the key positions in New Guinea. His plan did not call for a long campaign along the northern coast of New Guinea. He realized he needed to capture only a few strategic points in order to control the entire island. FDR considered the Pacific theater of war as secondary to the war in Europe, which meant that at no time was MacArthur given priority for equipment and replacements.

He also developed the Island hoping campaign that enabled air bases to be built for attacks on Japan.

He managed to turn the rout of U.N. forces by the North Koreans in 1950, that had them holding on by their teeth at Pusan, into a complete take over of the entire peninsula after the Inchon landing.

If MacDonald's is MacArthur, they would be getting 5 stars in the Michelin guide.

And let's not forget how critical he was in rebuilding Japan after the war.

 

[Damien Evans]

First off, it's MacArthur.

MacArthur captured all the key positions in New Guinea. His plan did not call for a long campaign along the northern coast of New Guinea. He realized he needed to capture only a few strategic points in order to control the entire island. FDR considered the Pacific theater of war as secondary to the war in Europe, which meant that at no time was MacArthur given priority for equipment and replacements.

He also developed the Island hoping campaign that enabled air bases to be built for attacks on Japan.

He managed to turn the rout of U.N. forces by the North Koreans in 1950, that had them holding on by their teeth at Pusan, into a complete take over of the entire peninsula after the Inchon landing.

If MacDonald's is MacArthur, they would be getting 5 stars in the Michelin guide.

You really don't know anything about the New Guinea Campaign, do you? If the Australians on the kokoda trail had done what MacArthur wanted them to then Port Moresby would have been eating sushi in 1942. Ordering a battalion strength unit to frontally attack a whole division? Madness, pure madness. We can only be thankful that brigadier Potts did not follow those insane orders, and instead continued his excellent fighting retreat.And don't even try to talk about Buna, Gona and Sanananda. The Japanese had 6 times as any troops there as Mac claimed they did, the whole thing was a tactical and strategic mess and we wound up having to send in part time militiamen to rescue the situation at Gona, then we had to re-send in just recalled troops to Buna because the Americans couldn't handle it!