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The two-year search for General Douglas MacArthur's speeches and reports was truly a labor of love. My Administrative Assistant, Ellen Schaefer, and I culled over 1,000 sources including memories, biographies, histories, military magazines such as the Army and Air Force Journals, unit histories, commercial magazines and newspapers. Magazines included such publications as National Geographic, Life Magazine and many esoteric less circulated literature such as Military Magazine, Retired Officers Magazine, Air Force Magazine and so many others. We received guidance and assistance from such sources as the U.S. Military Academy, the Engineering School at Ft. Leavenworth, the Command and General Staff School at Leavenworth, the Army War College, the MacArthur Archives Director James Zobel, the Library of Congress, the War Department; the sources seemed endless. We do believe we were able to capture all the major public speeches and reports covering MacArthur's truly productive years from 1908 through 1964. Contains more than 125 speeches/reports.

It will be interesting to note, MacArthur established his personality early in his military career and never veered from this. His admonition from his Mother when MacArthur was a student at West Point was, never cheat, never lie, never tattle"". Adhering to this edict MacArthur offered to resign from the Academy rather than answer questions from the Academy panel investigating hazing and harassment by a group of fellow students. MacArthur continued to develop his hard line against political and military intrigue by resolving to always do what he believed right even if he knew no one was watching. Further he was determined never to refuse to carryout the order of a senior officer - never be insubordinate to constituted authority.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	14 juin 2000
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781681623825
Langue	English

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 00-102473 ISBN: 978-1-56311-589-9
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I NTRODUCTION
On January 26, 1880 a child, destined for greatness was born of parents Arthur MacArthur and Pinkney Hardy MacArthur. The boy was named Douglas. His destiny was foretold by the stature of his father, an outstanding soldier of the Civil War and a very bright and spiritually oriented mother. The careful nurturing of the young boy by father and mother, began to show astonishing results early in the boy s development.
In September 1893, Arthur MacArthur was ordered to Texas and in Douglas own words, I hailed this move with delight. Housing the largest garrison I had ever seen, Fort Sam Houston guarded our southern borders and was one of the most important posts in the Army. It was here that a transformation began to take place in my development. I was enrolled in the West Texas Military Academy headed by the Reverend Allen Burlesoa, rector of the Army chapel. There came a desire to know, a seeking for the reason why, a search for the truth. Abstruse mathematics began to appear a challenge to analysis, dull Latin and Greek seemed a gateway to the moving words of the leaders of the past, laborious historical data led to the nerve-tingling battlefields of the great captains. Biblical lessons began to open the spiritual portals of a growing faith in literature to lay bare the souls of men. My studies enveloped me, my marks went higher, and many of the school s medals came my way. But I also learned how little such honors mean after one wins them.
I have always loved athletics and the spirit of competition moved me to participate in as many sports as possible. I became the quarterback on the eleven, the shortstop on the nine, the tennis champion of the campus.
At the end of Douglas four years at the West Texas Military Academy, Reverend Burlesoa showered MacArthur with silent praise stating he had graduated from the Academy with the highest honors and that he considered MacArthur the most promising student he ever had in his experience of ten years as schoolmaster both North and South.
MacArthur maintained that at an early age he established as his goal an appointment to the Military Academy at West Point, the greatest military academy in the world. In the spring of 1898 he passed the very competitive entrance examination for a West Point vacancy. On June 13, 1899 he enrolled at the U. S. Military Academy, graduating on June 11, 1903 as a second lieutenant of Engineers recording the highest scholastic record in twenty-five years.
Everything he touched whether he was especially qualified for the mission or not, turned into a brilliant performance as evidenced by his scholastic record at West Point; his remarkable athletic ability in a number of sports not becoming great in only one but in all that he participated in; his great flexibility as with his assignment as superintendent of the military academy immediately after returning home from WWI. MacArthur at first refused the honor but was told by President Wilson and the Secretary of War that the Academy was 40 years behind the times and that he could fix it. MacArthur s response to the Secretary was, I am an infantry man and I want to remain with my troops. The secretary sent him to West Point anyway.
Though there were initial problems with the old guard professors he soon resolved those issues through his determination to fix the academy. The changes in the academy curriculum, the reorganization, the expansion of social contact with America s best universities by sending his best scholars to Harvard, Yale, Duke and many other universities for special courses were significant, sound and enlightening. Many of the programs initiated then are still in effect, eighty years later. It was his vision, courage, imagination and will, with a good measure of initiative and energy that carried MacArthur through the difficult and trying three years as superintendent of the academy. He succeeded in carrying these fine qualities all his life.
MacArthur s war time activities speak for themselves. By all the records available he never lost a battle, never lost a war and his accomplishments in World War II confirmed the reputation that he had gained as an outstanding military tactician in World War I and added to it a reputation as a superior military strategist.
Formal written comment on his professional accomplishments began with a citation on his reconnaissance in a 1914 Vera Cruz campaign and extended to messages of congratulations on the successful fighting that stabilized the United Nations in Korea position in early 1951 after the onslaught of the Chinese Communist. Included among them are statements by Presidents Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson; chiefs of state and Prime Ministers Churchill, Curtin, Chiang Kai-shek, Quezon, Rhee, Yoshida; Secretary of State Byrnes, Secretaries of War Baker and Stimson, Secretaries of Defense Forrestal and Johnson; Secretary of Army Pace; Admirals Leahy, Nimitz, Halsey, and Sherman; Air Force Generals Arnold, Spaatz, Kenney and Stratemeyer; and Army Generals Pershing, Marshall and Collins. Numerous Congressmen, Lord Mountbatten, General Romulo, historian Freeman and other qualified observers also paid tribute.
Perhaps the most accurate and substantial accolade for MacArthur was announced by Britain s Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrook, Chairman of the British Chiefs of Staff during WWII. His long held secret diaries and correspondence form the basis of an explosive book, Triumph in the West which went on sale in 1957. Alanbrook said Eisenhower played golf instead of running the war at a crucial stage of the allied drive in Europe. Alanbrook contended Mr. Eisenhower s strong point was charm rather than military ability.
However Alanbrook had high praise for MacArthur in his Position as American Commander in the Pacific. MacArthur was the greatest General and the best strategist that the war produced, Alanbrook wrote. He added, MacArthur certainly outshone General George C. Marshall, United States Chief of Staff, Mr. Eisenhower and all other American and British Generals including Montgomery. Alanbrook described MacArthur after one meeting as, a very striking personality with perhaps a tinge of the actor, but any failing in this direction was certainly not offensive.
On MacArthur s Pacific campaign Alanbrook wrote, The masterly way in which he bad jumped from point to point leaving masses of Japs to decay behind him had filled me with admiration. He is head and shoulders bigger than Marshall and if he had been in the latter s place during the last four years I feel certain that my task in the combined Chiefs of Staff would have been easier.
Probably the most important knowledge and skill MacArthur developed over the years cannot be found in any published material about MacArthur. That skill is geopolitics; a subject foreign to American universities prior to the end of WW II. As explanation, geopolitics is the study of the influence of such factors as geography, economics and demographics on the politics and foreign policy of a country and should be the basis of our foreign policy. Such a study by our state department and especially our appointed ambassadors about the countries to which they are assigned would determine in detail the aims and aspirations of that country. Proper application of geopolitical thinking, tactics and strategy can then avoid many blunders and mistakes.
This short brief on geopolitics is presented here simply to show the master of geopolitics to be MacArthur. Through his in-depth study of world history to his exposure to the people of most of the world s emerging countries, governments and culture he held a world view of all the countries which may, in some way, effect diplomatic action by our government. MacArthur s strategic thinking always took into consideration his actions and the effect his actions may have on not only the enemy, but also the neighboring countries bordering on the particular country with which he was engaged. As an example, MacArthur while engaging Japan in war was also mindful of the aims and aspirations of the border countries - China, Korea, Russia - and also the German, English and French interests in his sphere of influence.
MacArthur was head and shoulders above our state department on the handling of the border countries. One of the greatest misjudgments of the century was made by Mr. Harry Truman and his ambassador General George C. Marshall. In an attempt to determine which China to support - Mao Tse Tung or Chiang Kai-shek - Marshall s report to Truman concluded that Mao seemed to be amenable to a gradual drift towards democracy. Truman then, without consulting MacArthur, established the new China policy.
In testimony before a congressional committee MacArthur was asked about our China Policy and he stated, The decision to support Mao was wrong. Our country will suffer because of this decision. This is the worst mistake made by our government in a hundred years.
After MacArthur s early school days where he had the time to study the classics, especially the old classics, he rarely read fiction again. His near total reading involved non-fiction. Everything in science, technology, education, finance, politics, business, athletics; nothing seemed to escape his eye or his interest. He frequently read the Bible. One of his senior officers, Armel Dyer who served with MacArthur in the Philippines and Japan, states, MacArt

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