MacArthur is made Supreme Allied Commander

So here's the premise, can you think of any way that Douglas MacArthur is made the supreme Allied Commander, instead of Eisenhower? There is no question that MacArthur had the credentials, after all he was the youngest division commander in WWI, and the youngest Chief of Staff. Basically, the reason he was sent to the Phillipines was because Roosevelt couldn't stand him.

However, as I ask again, what if MacArthur was sent to command the Allied Forces in Europe rather than be sent to the Pacific theatre? If so, what strategies would he pursue? Would Nazi Germany be defeated sooner or later?
 
Douglas "God" MacArthur was in the Philippines in the first place because he accepted a job offer from the president of the Philippines in lieu of retiring due to anti-militarism in the US. Come December 1941 and the Japanese attack and subsequent expulsion of American forces, I don't think anyone in the world could compel him to accept a European command.

POD? Have Roosevelt or whoever is in the White House and Congress not cutback on military expenditures. Have isolationism heel down so that the justification for a strong military is there in the 1930s, and MacArthur will remain in Washington in time for war in 1941.
 

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VERY doubtful. The ETO needed a uniter, a politician as much as a commander.

McArthur was none of the three. He would have been relieved inside of a year (and, in a just world, court marshalled for insubordination and cashiered) since he would have pulled the same BS he did in Korea if he got that much power.

As was, he was insufferable as one of the three theater commanders in the Pacific (SouthWest Pacific, with Nimitz having Pacific Area & Stillwell in SE Asia).
 
I shudder to think what McArthur's ego would do when it came in contact with Montgomery's ego. Or DeGaulle's. Or Patton's.

And he's going to have to deal with all three.

I think CalBear's assessment is a best-case scenario.
 
I Shall Return

In the Alternate Generals Books, - The Story -I shall Return- has Eisenhower sent to the Philippines to help MacArthur.
Ike takes Mitchell and Patton with Him.

Whe have the three repel the Jap landing on Leyte.
MacArthur takes the Credit, and goes Back to the US to become Supreme Allied Commander.
The - I shall return - is said by the Jap Commander, as he is forced to withdraw.
 
for this to be MacArthur would either had spent most of career stateside working the washington dinner parties or as some military attache in europe. either way...fail
 
Well I think even if MacArthur was in place to be a possible canidate for Supereme Commander his personality would make him miss out. Patton, Montey all had better field records then Ike but they did not have the people skills to make everything run smoothly.
 
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