>Part of why Eisenhower was a good supreme commander was that he could wrangle the assholes into at least not fighting each other!

That's a spicy take on the British.

(I kid, but the joke is in fact based in historical fact, managing relations with the British was a key reason he was given the job)

And the French.

As General Jacob L. Devers wrote to French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny in 1945, "For many months we have fought together, often on the same side."