Patton, George S. (1885–1945)

United States general

The German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) wrote that “a distinguished commander without boldness is unthinkable” (Clausewitz [1832] 1976, 198). In World War II, George Smith Patton, Jr., was the epitome of a bold commander in campaigns in ...

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