I'm with player on this,
one can't keep stacking the top unless one has real business. As far as the particular individual, don't really have an opinion, I am not familiar enough with how the part of the military Patton spent his last 5 or 10 years in works to generalize on skill sets. An entirely unintentional pun.
I would imagine the military is like every place else - it has authoritarian managers, buddy-buddy managers, good managers, bad managers, consensus building managers, my-way or the highway managers, wheel and deal managers, dirty managers, clean managers and every variety in between (regardless of what the ultimate mission, rules, and movie clips would suggest). Certainly 2 stars is a restricted space, wiki tells me the US has 99 of them at any one time, but I can't hazard a guess as to what phenotype is actually selected for in that environment.
I have limited experience with military officers becoming managers in non-military settings, and in my very limited sample one might stereotype towards being a bit rules oriented on one hand but remarkably willing to delegate and remarkably willing to accept the expert opinions of those below them - as if a reflection of compartmentalization of expertise. A little rough on the edges, yea, I think so.
The above content is my opinion.
