It's not an RTS UT. It is in the same genre as Battlezone and Carrier Command (the game it most closely resembles).
The game gives you an aircraft carrier and troops who (mostly) follow your orders. You give them an objective and they go off and try to carry it out. At any point you can leap in and take over any particular vehicle and fight with it yourself but the computer players generally do a pretty good job on their own (In fact Patton is so good with the tank I rarely take over except to drive him to the next battle

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Basically imagine an RTS seen through the eyes of the combatants where you can take over any tank and play as a shooter.