Douglas MacArthur’s firing by President Harry S. Truman in 1951 is the only genuine case of wartime insubordination by an American military commander. General MacArthur had a history of disregarding ...
That general was Douglas MacArthur who in late 1950 and early 1951 grew so disdainful of President Harry S. Truman’s and the Pentagon’s response to the Communist threat in Asia that he went off on his ...