Jonathan Bratten
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318 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Apr
Jonathan Bratten’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, on the American side, we've got our own sort of controversial, either you love him or hate him, you've got Vinegar Joe Stilwell in China, sort of attempting to do something rather similar
Slim is dealing with a situation where you've got multiple sort of European forces, sort of colonial forces.
You've got British colonial forces that you're trying to fight with.
And you're doing this all in really horrific ways.
I mean, the China-India-Burma theater, it's one where logistics is everything because there are no roads.
Everything sucks.
The weather's awful.
You have to almost fly everything in.
And this idea of how you are successful in elements like that, the way Slim is, I mean, of course, you're going to come out of that looking somewhat legendary, especially considering the number of people around him who were not...
being led into or sort of collapsing.
Yeah, to be able to sort of influence the morale of a unit, to allow soldiers to understand what it is that they're actually fighting for.
I think there's something with that with Truscott as well, that you have individuals who are able to go and just speak to soldiers on a sort of one-to-one basis.
You're not talking down, you're talking with.
That's huge, whether you're talking about training or keeping up morale in very, very difficult circumstances.
It is also interesting to look at how he's using resources.
There's always a temptation to throw resources at specialized units.
And we could look at Robert Rogers through the 1760s and 1770s and this idea of, oh, just give me more resources, give me more people, and we'll train these ranger units, and they're going to have amazing effects when really...
What every commander from Gage to Washington needs in the 18th century is just more good line infantry, maybe some good artillery batteries.
And you really see this across World War II.
Some commanders have this obsession with sort of specialized units, whether it's Merrill's Marauders and the Chindits in the Pacific Theater or the Army Rangers in the European Theater.
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