Complex sentence: To Eisenhower, this command arrangement meant a reversion to "the British Committee system", and he drafted a cable to the Combined Chiefs demanding a unified command structure, but Smith persuaded him to tear it up.
Split into simpler sentences: To Eisenhower, this command arrangement meant a reversion to the British "committee system". He drafted a cable to the Combined Chiefs demanding a unified command structure, but Smith persuaded him to tear it up.