Jonathan Bratten
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318 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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What you're doing, I think a lot of people don't realize, is you're pulling some of the best, most intellectual, best trained, most physically fit soldiers from regular formations where they could be training those around them and making those around them better, grouping them into one very specialized unit, which can be used for good operational or strategic success if used correctly.
But if used incorrectly, you're killing off your best and your brightest, and you're really not delivering what is needed for winning that conflict.
And so Slim takes some flack for his disdain of the Chindits, but I'm of his camp of saying...
No, we need to make the whole force better.
Not everyone can be a special forces soldier.
And if you're using them incorrectly, as case in point, the Rangers in Europe, I mean, where they blow up to four battalions and then you lose most of those in one single operation in Italy, you're just wasting so much of your talent in one single source.
But that is a personal opinion.
And many other military thinkers would and do disagree with me.
He definitely cultivated that air.
He was noted in the press as the GI general.
And so, while yes, he is sort of, he's more humble than Patton, but that doesn't take a lot.
I mean, it's-
The bar is very low there.
But he does cultivate, definitely, an image that is more of one of the troops.
He dresses like an average soldier.
He's not spit and polish.
He's not wearing a fancy uniform.
He's very focused on doing the work.
And he's one of these guys who's in the European theater, the Atlantic theater, however you want to describe it.
It really comes up through the North African campaign, from North Africa all the way to the end.
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