如果要评比二十世纪最伟大的军事家，那如果陆军总参谋长乔治·马歇尔一定是当之无愧的第一，在罗斯福的任期内他真正做到了什么叫做“一人之下，万人之上。 Even after President Truman came to power, Marshall became the real master behind it. Moreover, in the United States, Marshall also has many honors, such as the fact that the rank of marshal was not established because of Marshall, and he was evaluated as a person who could be entrusted to the whole United States.
马歇尔在美军中的老资历
During World War II, Marshall was the head of the U.S. Army and served as Chief of the U.S. Army General Staff. Since Roosevelt basically did not intervene in military issues, Marshall was basically a state of solitude in the military field. Compared with the military leaders of other countries, this is basically not the case, Germany is Hitler in power, and the Soviet Union is Stalin himself who has the final say.
In addition, Marshall has managed to firmly control the military leadership of the US military. Almost all of the most famous generals of the U.S. military in World War II were his students or subordinates, such as Patton, Nimitz, Bradley, Stilwell, etc., of course, another veteran MacArthur has been wandering around the fringe circle of the U.S. military for a long time, so I won't go into too much detail here.
Marshall also has a special place where he has endless accolades in the United States. Because Marshall's name means marshal in English, the United States does not set the rank of marshal, and the highest is only a five-star general, and Marshall is also the first five-star general in the United States, and he is also called the greatest living man in the United States, who can entrust the entire United States.
马歇尔对世界的影响
When Roosevelt was in power, the United States at that time was actually jointly formulated and implemented by Marshall and Roosevelt, who were the main planners of the post-war world situation. And because President Roosevelt died of a sudden stroke in 1945, the main operator after that was Marshall.
Although President Truman was promoted to the presidency of the United States immediately after Roosevelt's death, because Truman belonged to the lower class in the United States and he himself did not go to college, it was indeed difficult to force him to plan for the difficult tasks of World War II and its aftermath. Therefore, during the period from 1945 to 1951, Marshall actually served as the core of the United States, and Truman played more of a cooperative and auxiliary role.
After Marshall's visit to China in early 1946 and his meeting with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in April 1947, Marshall returned home to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, the chief of all U.S. departments, including the Department of Defense. After this visit, Marshall decided to abandon Chinese mainland, but to keep Taiwan as much as possible, and the United States never gave Chiang any more assistance after that.
The second thing Marshall did was to propose the Marshall Plan to aid Europe, which was proposed when the world was in an uproar, which was one of the few victorious countries in the world to pay reparations to the defeated countries, and the amount of this aid was as high as half of the annual GDP of the United States.
Hitler's evaluation of the US military as businessmen in military uniforms summed it up very well. U.S. national policy revolves around making money. If we look at what the United States wants, it is not difficult to see what the United States cares about most, and the United States chooses not Central and Eastern Europe but Southern Europe. There is no other reason, Central and Eastern Europe are too poor, and there is no suitable harbor, and the United States has chosen to abandon China for this reason, and the billions of poor people have no way to manage it, so it is better to cut it as soon as possible.