I am watching a video about General Eisenhower, starring Tom Selleck. it is very good. Everything I've ever read abou General Eisenhower makes me think he was a great military leader, with honor, guts,compassion and diplomacy. Does anyone agree with me? Maybe you admire someone else...who?
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2006-08-03 16:07:54 · 12 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
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2006-08-03 16:13:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Alexander was probably the greatest military leader of all time. Not only was he a great tactician, he was masterful at strategy, politics and was adored by his soldiers. Lastly, unlike all modern military leaders he was also a great warrior, his battlefield exploits are the stuff of legend. The military leader I most admire was R.E. Lee. He was a truly great man, honorable, devot, intelligent, creative. Many don't realize it but he was offered command of the U.S. Army before the start of the war. I'm not talking command of the Army of the Potomac, I'm saying commander of ALL the U.S Army. Everyone in the military knew he was the best the country had produced and was quite probably the best field commander our country has ever produced. Read a book about R.E. Lee sometime.
2006-08-04 10:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by Tower of T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm feeling a little obscure tonight. I will put my vote on the man who led the his forces against the US in the only war the US army totally lost (My opinion is that Korea was a draw, and Viet Nam was won in a military sense. The Vietnamese gave us everything we asked for in the Paris Accords-We lost that one AFTER the war). Red Cloud, an Oglala Sioux leader, led a calition of Sioux, Cheyenne, and some others in a war to shut down the Bozeman Trail. He outfought and outfoxed a larger and more technologically advanced force to its total defeat. The Treaty of Fort Laramie ceded to the Sioux everything they asked for. It gave the the Black Hills, the Powder River country, and a complete shutdown of the Bozeman Trail and the forts that defended it. This was to be the land of the Sioux for all of time. Well, the faces carved into the mountainside in the Black Hills tell you how long that actually held up, but tonight, my favorite military leader is Red Cloud.
2006-08-03 17:37:03 · answer #3 · answered by kjdean68 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jackson. I believe he was the greatest General that has ever lived.
Famous as the hero of "Bull Run" where he gained the name "Stonewall Jackson". His true genious was displayed in the Valley Campaign. In 38 days Jackson's troops marched 400 miles and despite the fact that he was out numbered was victorious throughout five battles. He fought a war of manuver surrounded and destroyed superior forces by superiour strategy.
"I would rather be a private in such an Army than a Field Officer in any other Army," wrote one soldier. W.C. Corsan traveled through the south during the war and remarked on Jackson and his men. "Such heroism will inflame even cowards",....and it falls on the fiery and reckless Southern soldiers like a spark on gunpowder. They may be annihilated, but the force does not exist on earth than can subdue them."
Had he not been accidently killed things may have been different.
2006-08-03 16:33:04 · answer #4 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the best military leader of all time was Alexander. He was one of the only generals in history to lead a charge against an enemy. He never asked his men to do anything he was not willing to do himself. He was a gifted speaker, capable of inspiring his men to fight against vastly superior numbers. He was courageous almost to the point of foolishness, and had to be rescued on at least one occasion when he attempted to take the walls of a city with a small band of men. He also was adept at winning over the locals of cities he had conquered, something that the US military struggles with to this day.
2006-08-03 16:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by Danzarth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked Manstein's skillful counter offensive after the debacle at Stalingrad and Paul Hausser's master work on the tactical level. The II. SS Panzer Korps along with supporting elements beat off a Soviet force that out numbered them 7 to 1 and retook the city of Kharkov (commonly referred to as the 3rd Battle of Kharkov).
Hausser would be my pick, he was one of the few german generals that disobeyed the fuhrer's order to stand at all costs with no retreat. He demonstrated his leadership in many losing situations on the Eastern Front, as well as Normandy.
2006-08-03 16:34:20 · answer #6 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adlof Hitler not many people give him the respect he deserves he went from a drifter in vienna to a dictator in a very short amount of time and he also shows that even the biggest f**k up can acheive something and the guy never gave up on anything i actually admire him and his ideaology even though he killed millions of inocent citizens and went crazy with power but every one has there flaws
2006-08-03 16:21:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
General Patton is the obvious answer but I think General Schwarzkopf showed great promise too. Storming Norman could have finished off our Middle problems if he had not been stopped.
Hitler was a psychotic idiot, not a military leader, he never lead his troops - he sent them.
2006-08-03 16:26:57 · answer #8 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George Patton
2006-08-03 16:14:08 · answer #9 · answered by lost in space 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Collin Powell
2006-08-04 01:48:38 · answer #10 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah yes, I often have long day-dreams about yassir arafat.
2006-08-03 16:21:43 · answer #11 · answered by John S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋