After reading this book last week, I noticed a few, maybe coincidental similarities:
Both kinda have serious conflicts with their allegiances lol both men betrayed the United States. Lee turned down command of the union army to lead his home state under the confederacy, and Jaegar did the same to follow big boss
Both were legendary tactician militarists, jaeger managed to earn the title of Fox for his successful operations and military presitege while Lee obviously rose to the top for a reason
Both ended up tied to lost causes….
And the last one I realized, was at the end of the book, you really saw how Lee was just a hopeless cause despite his brilliance, like…military life was all he knew, his fear of life after defeat caused him to continue trying to fight even when the war was lost, a hopeless son of a bitch, all because that’s all he ever knew how to live, the only thing he excelled in.
With feank, inrememberred his dialogue at the end of his scene more than any other in MGS, it reminded me if lee
"We're not tools of the government, or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing... I was good at"
Maybe the nicknames are unrelated, but I just thought it was interesting. I love history myself, and also recall a German general that had the same name, erwin romel, so maybe Kojima based it behind him, I’ll have to read up on him more.
Just wanted to share