Your two quotes are really one quote. You have just dishonestly edited out Mead's opinon which you have deceitfully and dishonestly misrepresented.

"As adjectives go thoroughness and plodding do not set the heart racing. Yet Haig's great virtues - gritty determination and a refusal to indulge in melodramatics - were and are precisely the qualities necessary in a general. This is true even if we acknowledge..."

So you have dishonestly tried to deceive us that Mead has formed a negative view of Haig.

You lied to us Rag. You can not produce a single quote that supports your lies about Mead's view of Haig as expressed in his biography, "The Good Soldier."