General Norman Schwarzkopf returns home this week to a hero's welcome -- and that has some disgruntled military colleagues anxious to amend the record. They say that contrary to many reports, Schwarzkopf was never in line to be Army Chief of Staff. Top Pentagon officials contend that the general was offered -- and rejected -- an appointment as Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. The general turned down the NATO job, they assume, largely because he realized that it has become less important in the post-cold war era. Some top brass consider Schwarzkopf too mercurial for the bureaucratic Army job and aren't...
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