Jonathan Bratten
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Apr
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Just getting very, very good at the administrative, at the logistics.
And so by the time of the Louisiana maneuvers in 1941, when the U.S.
Army is really just going, all right, things look very dire around the world.
We should really, I don't know, test our theory, test our doctrine, test our equipment and soldiers.
Kruger sort of comes to the fore as one of these guys who's like, wow, yeah, he's very dependable.
And he sort of becomes this workhorse in the Pacific under MacArthur, eventually rising to command of the Sixth Army in the Southwest Pacific campaigns.
The Southwest Pacific tends to not get as much focus as the Central Pacific under Nimitz, mainly because, well, Marines.
Nimitz has most of the Marines, and they are a phenomenal publicity campaign.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And through the Solomon Islands as well, which is just really, really bloody combat, but also tiny little islands, just little island chains and where you're having to constantly make the decision.
Do you bypass?
Do you try to surround cut off?
One thing I love about the Pacific is you don't have a choice whether you want to be a joint commander or not.
But the virtue of the terrain and the geography, you have to be thinking air, land and sea.
And if you're not doing it, you're not successful.
And Kruger, ultimately, he's seen sort of by some historians as sort of too plotting or too deliberate.
But being deliberate is how you are successful in the Pacific is because you have to sort of build up capacity at an island chain to then move to the next one and then the next one.
And everyone's screaming for landing craft, both theaters.
You can't do anything without them.
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