This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Lloyd Clark, whose

no book is The Commanders, the Leadership journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel.

We go to Patton at war, but surprisingly, not at war in the Great War on Europe.

You will remember that the U.S. did not enter that war until 1917.

However, Patton in 1916 found his way on to the

Expeditionary Force led by John Pershing into Mexico.

What's striking about this with all the time they had on their hands is that Patton

wound up making what he called a vehicle attack on one of Pancho Villa's lie

who Leo Cardenius and surprising to me professor Professor, at this point, Patton has this imagination that I'm going to be a hero.

And he kills the man. He shoots him, dead. He launches the attack. Did the death in any way show up in his writing to his parents at this time?

Did he pause about it shooting a man is different than imagining it.

I don't think it preyed on his mind at all.

This is a man who from his first days in the Army sought action, sought to be a hero and was willing to do

whatever it took to be successful, however that might be defined.

In just getting onto the expedition to Mexico, he was not backwards in coming forwards.

He was always innovating, he was always pushing the the boundaries and therefore he recognized that he would have to take risks

and that if warfare was about anything it was about defeating the enemy and if therefore somebody got in his way and he had to kill him

that was just the price that people paid and he was willing to be the person that pulled the

trigger when it was required.

And he gained fame at this moment, at least in the newspapers.

He was dubbed the bandit killer.

He was also someone already preaching cavalry tactics, which I write down as mobility, boldness and aggression.

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