Patton, typically, once exclaimed that intelligence and possible enemy intentions never worried him: it was what he was about to do to the enemy that mattered.

wrote Dominick Graham and Shelford Bidwell in Coalitions, Politicians and Generals.

Did this sum up the way the Americans conducted the war in Europe? What had brought about this way of waging war? If Patton literally meant it, did it reflect the American attitude to the war on the ground in France and Germany in 1944/45?

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