avor. A great deal of these strategies stemmed from his early involvement in the United States Cavalry. As a leader in the cavalry, he believed that speed and mobility were the keys to war. He would often use lighter and less effective armament as long as its speed was enhanced. (2).A lot of skeptics believed Patton to be in the least eccentric and closer to crazy. They couldn’t understand what would possess a man to be as vulgar, crude, harsh, and heartless with life as Patton was. Patton was a man who got the job done no matter the cost. If his orders were to take out a village, as soon as possible, he would take his troops and march straight until they got there. Then he would proceed to take out the village at any cost of life. He believed that every man wanted to fight; at least every real American. (2). In reality, the thing that drove Patton to success and perfection was a childhood disease in which he suffered from. Many are unaware that Patton suffered from dyslexia as a boy. “‘The seeming confidence of his actions and supreme rightness of his decisions emerged, paradoxically, from his own sense of dyslexic inadequacy. Succeeding in his endeavors at a terrible cost to himself, Patton sought perfection and was never satisfied with his performance’” (Qtd. 2). This old childhood nemesis, that Patton could not avoid or beat, gave him the courage and mind-set to always achieve a goal, and destroy the enemy. He could never settle for anything less than perfection, and when the United States asked him to complete a mission, he would do it, in the most effective and efficient way possible no matter what the cost. Eventually Patton would see action again after his Sicily episode. In August of 1944 Eisenhower gave Patton control of the U.S. 3rd Army. His directions were to drive the German’s out of France after the Allies had advanced through the Normandy beachhead. He pursued the e...
