Dwight D. Eisenhower: Perbedaan antara revisi

[[File:Major General Dwight Eisenhower, 1942 TR207.jpg|thumb|Eisenhower sebagai [[Mayor Jenderal (Amerika Serikat)|mayor jenderal]], 1942]]

 

 

[[Military history of France during World War II|French]] cooperation was deemed necessary to the campaign and Eisenhower encountered a "preposterous situation"{{according to whom|date=March 2019}} with the multiple rival factions in France. His primary objective was to move forces successfully into [[French protectorate of Tunisia|Tunisia]] and intending to facilitate that objective, he gave his support to [[François Darlan]] as High Commissioner in North Africa, despite Darlan's previous high offices of state in [[Vichy France]] and his continued role as commander-in-chief of the [[French Armed Forces|French armed forces]]. The [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] leaders were "thunderstruck"{{according to whom|date=March 2019}} by this from a political standpoint, though none of them had offered Eisenhower guidance with the problem in the course of planning the operation. Eisenhower was severely criticized{{by whom|date=March 2019}} for the move. Darlan was assassinated on December 24 by [[Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle]]. Eisenhower did not take action to prevent the arrest and extrajudicial execution of Bonnier de La Chapelle by associates of Darlan acting without authority from either Vichy or the Allies, considering it a criminal rather than a military matter.<ref>Atkinson, ''An Army at Dawn'', pp. 251–252.</ref> Eisenhower later appointed, as High Commissioner, General [[Henri Giraud]], who had been installed by the Allies as Darlan's commander-in-chief, and who had refused to postpone the execution.<ref>{{harvnb|Ambrose|1983|pp=204–210}}</ref>