S8 Ep732: 2. This source focuses on American intervention under General Pershing, who resisted amalgamating U.S. troops into French units. Lloyd examines how German forces were physically defeated in 1918 despite later "stab in the back" myths, noting that the Alli
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2. This source focuses on Americanintervention under General Pershing, who resisted amalgamating U.S. troops into French units. Lloyd examines how Germanforces were physically defeated in 1918 despite later "stab in the back" myths, noting that the Allies were too exhausted to pursue them into Germany. (2)
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| 0:34.9 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with Professor Lloyd Clark, whose new book is The Commanders, |
| 0:40.2 | the leadership journeys of George Patton, Bernard McComery, and Erwin Rommel. We go to Patton at war, |
| 0:46.9 | but surprisingly not at war in the Great War on Europe. You will remember that the U.S. |
| 0:52.1 | did not enter that war until 1917. However, Patton in |
| 0:56.9 | 2016 found his way on to the expeditionary force led by John Pershing in New Mexico. What's striking |
| 1:05.8 | about this with all the time they had on their hands is that Patton wound up making what he called a vehicle attack |
| 1:15.6 | on one of Pancho Villas lieutenants, Julio Cardenas. |
| 1:20.6 | And surprising to me, Professor, at this point, Patton has this imagination that I'm going to be a hero and he kills the man. |
| 1:30.5 | He shoots him dead. He launches the attack. Did the death in any way show up in his writing to |
| 1:37.0 | his parents at this time? Did he pause about it? Shooting a man is different than imagining it. |
| 1:47.6 | 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 |
| 1:55.4 | and was willing to do whatever it took to be successful, however that might be defined. |
| 2:02.4 | And just getting onto the expedition to Mexico, he was not backwards in coming forwards. |
| 2:10.2 | He was always innovating. He was always pushing the boundaries. And therefore, he recognized |
| 2:16.1 | that he would have to take risks and that if warfare was about anything, it was about defeating the enemy. |
| 2:22.9 | And if therefore somebody got in his way and he had to kill him, that was just the price that people paid. |
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