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A 4 page research paper that contrasts and compares the leadership styles of Generals Douglas MacArthur and George Patton, who were two of the most brilliant military leaders that the United States has ever produced. But while they both shared this distinction, their leadership styles were quite different. MacArthur was analytical and remote from his men; Patton was also logical of mind but also understood psychological factors far better than MacArthur, so was viewed by his men much more favorably. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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their leadership styles were quite different. MacArthur was analytical and remote from his men; Patton was also logical of mind but also understood psychological factors far better than MacArthur, so
was viewed by his men much more favorably. The daily routines of the two generals, of course, varied according to their different commands at different times in their lives.
However, in general, both men tended to be regimented in their habits. MacArthur appears to have favored working at night. For weeks after his arrive in Melbourne at the beginning
of World War II, he spent "long evening in the map room," becoming an expert on the geography of the vast Pacific theatre (Manchester 280). Similarly, after the war, as
head commander of the American occupation of Japan, MacArthur worked primarily in the evenings. It was impossible to be neutral about MacArthur, as people either venerated him or disliked
him intensely. Some of his subordinate commanders saw him as comparable to Alexander the Great in his military prowess, "with Alexander a poor second," and George E. Stratemeyer summed up
this stance by saying that MacArthur was the "the greatest leader, he greatest commander, the greatest hero in American history" (Manchester 5). On the other hand, to others, MacArthur appeared
to be so remote as to be unapproachable (Manchester 5). He is described as wrapping "himself in a cloak of dignified aloofness" (Manchester 5-6). MacArthur surrounded himself with subordinates who
were "blindly subservient, even obsequious" to the Generals numerous eccentricities of thought and behavior (Manchester 6). One of the ablest commanders on MacArthurs staff once made the comment that
"None of MacArthurs men...can risk being first-rate," so as not to outshine the General (Manchester 6). Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that MacArthur was brilliant or that his analytical
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