Patton Leadership

well, leading to his reprimand for striking a soldier in an aid station. The Generals personality was one that led for admiration as well as having been seen in the past of being one of arrogance many had held either a love or hate for the General, especially when it came from the view from the enlisted soldiers. From the enemies view as well, was one of high regard and fear. Harry Yeide in the article German view of Patton, shows how the enemy officers and leaders had viewed the General, not as a hero, but as a leader who may have been flawed within his leadership. The first time a German Unit had encountered Patton was in the Afrika Campaign in which General Erwin Rommel had led the Afrika Corps against the II Corps headed up by General

What was also seen in the book was Patton’s approach to the necessity of discipline within the ranks in order to ensure that the newly formed corps was to be effective as a fighting force. Patton also bordered on the obsessive in terms of achieving excellence through the use of “spit and polish” in order to attain the desired results he intended to receive. He was also a large believe that the weapons was inconsequential to victory, where the necessity for victory lay in the spirit of the fighting man and the ability to conduct war on behalf of their country, as well as their commander. Patton had also showed his fearlessness in combat, where he would often get close to the front and the actual fighting in order to lead the soldiers through the battle they had been fighting in. What he had also showed was the necessity through his own view of being close to the troops in the frontlines in order to lead them, if he couldn’t see the troops and the fighting he wouldn’t be able to lead the soldiers effectively in the war. Essentially what was shown was that Patton had a great zeal for leading from the front.

General Patton had a great deal of characteristics that would ultimately be the necessary factors in the victories that were seen in the Second World War. While many had admired him, some did not find him as acceptable as others and found him to be haughty or even vulgar to the point of being an ineffective leader. Regardless of few views, the General had the uncanny ability to inspire and also lead soldier into combat with an effective ability to win wars as well as inspire those around him to give there all in terms of