Good to see my book, No Substitute for Victory: Lessons in Strategy and Leadership from General Douglas MacArthur (FT Press, 2005), pop up in IBD
Douglas MacArthur, A Triumphant Warrior And Statesman
09/01/2015 01:46 PM ET
Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs Japan's surrender on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945.
Douglas MacArthur produced victories in war and peace. He held the rare U.S. Army rank of five-star general — and the only one to receive the Medal of Honor.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called him the best American commander of World War II — and with good reason.
MacArthur (1880-1964) led the battering of Japanese forces in the South Pacific during World War II, culminating in the liberation of the Philippines.
After the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, prompting Japan to give up the fight in August 1945, President Truman empowered MacArthur to arrange and accept the Land of the Rising Sun's formal surrender.
That end of WWII came during MacArthur's choreographed ceremony 70 years ago this Sept. 2 on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
"I received no instructions as to what to say or what to do," MacArthur wrote in "Reminiscences." "I was on my own, (with) only God and my conscience to guide me." ...read the rest here
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