The Army is not happy, even today, with discussing anything other than its politically correct version of the way it fought World War II. After the war Marshall acknowledged that American military leaders “discussed political things more than anything else.… But we were careful, exceedingly careful, never to discuss them with the British, and from that they took the count that we didn’t observe these things at all.…” As Warren Kimball explains, the American military’s public protests that they were not politicians were belied by their private actions.
