Jonathan Bratten

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318 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6 Apr

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The Commanders: The Best of the Rest · 6 Apr 2026 podcast

to every single point on the globe.

I mean, we are talking Army, Navy, Air Corps in just some of the most remote, faraway conditions.

Yeah, but because he's not a commander and never commanded in combat beyond a platoon in the Philippines in 1901 or so, he usually gets overlooked as, oh, just some staff person.

Definitely.

You can't achieve your sort of nation's political policy objectives against another nation or set of nations unless you're amassing all the right effects at the right place at the right time.

That's incredibly difficult.

What are the right effects to use?

What is the best way –

to bring about, I mean, you know, the allies make this decision to call for the unconditional surrender of the axis, which is highly controversial because there's this idea of, well, if we say unconditional surrender, then they're just going to fight to the death.

And so how do you get your military commanders to then bring about the

that effect?

How do you get them to bring your enemy to their knees?

I mean, you can't just go in with pinpricks.

It's this utterly enormous movement from the home front, from production,

to labor, to merchant marine shipping, aircraft, all the way over to these vast theaters of war to then deploy those in a responsible way where you're not sort of wasting equipment, wasting lives.

It's so daunting.

When you start thinking about the scope of it, you just sort of stop and get a headache and just want to go outside and look at some grass.

Totally.

Well, I mean, one, he is a character, to say the least.

And he's also doing something that is very, very difficult, commanding multinational forces, and especially in the Far East.

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