who is the greatest general of all time?

Question

who is the greatest general of all time


alexander the great?
Hannibal Barca?
Napoleon Bonaparte?

Answer 1

1) Patton how far could he have gone given a free hand in france during 1944?

2) Rommel what could he have done had he more than 25% of the force required to win in africa plus his defense of france and the conquest of france.

3) zhukov the defender of russia and did well in the east prior to facing the germans

4) Paul Hausser for his tactical leadership of the II SS Panzer Corps, he restored the sagging front after Stalingrad and Kursk, beating Soviet Armies 7 times his size.

5) napolean master of land and sea warfare egypt and russian were his for a while. He was left chomping on the bit along the English Coast the same as Hitler tho.

6) thomas jackson, for his tactical victories in the Shenandoah Valley and Chancellorsville. He made bobby lee look good and if he was alive, could've won at Gettysburg too.

7) macarthur same as napolean but not the size of scale of conquest. A free hand could've won the Korean Conflict, either that or a direct confrontation with China...who knows?

8)Moltke first used the practice of mobility with railroads and the use of commanders to figure out the best way to take an objective

9)Sherman author the first demonstation of total warfare with march through the south to atlanta

10)genghis khan able to go from mongolia to europe a large undertaking considering his time. His empire was larger than Hitlers, Alexanders, and the Roman Empire combined.

11) charlemagne last big empire of europe until napolean. Without him, Europe would've been overrun by the Moors/Saracens (You'd be praying to Mecca each day).

12)Gauis Julius Caesar, especially for his exploits in Gaul and Britainnia...

Answer 2

efw knows his stuff. I do take issue with his evaluations of Jackson and MacArthur.

Stonewall was brilliant when he was brilliant (as at Chancellorsville or in the Valley). He was hopeless when he went into religious sissiefits (as he did during the Peninsula). He did save Lee's **** at Sharpsburg, but that was pretty much because he was facing three beaten armies, with darned little communication among them. I give McClellan credit for winning at all there.

There is utterly no justification for nominating MacArthur. This man thwarted the drive straight across the Pacific because he just had to get back to the Philippines. He is also responsible for two of the three worst defeats ever suffered by US armies.

Why did he let his airforce sit on the ground waiting to be destroyed, when it might have had a major impact if deployed over fogged-in Formosa. Why couldn't he decide between confronting invasion forces at the beachheads and immediately withdrawing to Bataan?

Well, then, the next disaster: In October 1950 MacArthur had clear unequivocal indications that Chinese forces were operating in strength in Korea. He chose to ignore that intelligence and order both 8th Army and 10th Corps to procede north. The 8th Army's collision with Chinese troops was the worst disaster in US military history. That 10th Corps (on the other side of impassible mountains) didn't suffer the same fate is largely due to 1st Marine Division commanders dragging their feet, something that Marines rarely do.

Yes I know, give him Inchon. Anyone fighting against a demoralized enemy and who had total sea and air control would have chosen an invasion above enemy lines. Inchon was just the worst possible spot. Okay it worked, but just about any landing in force north of the Pusan Perimeter would have worked at that point, and Dougie chose the very worst one, because he had to get Seoul back, just as six years before he had to get Manila back, and on that account probably made the use of the abomb inevitable.

Answer 3

There are so many to choose from are you kiddin me. I wouldn't select any of the men you've listed. I believe Field Marshal Irwin Rommel is the greatest general in the past several centuries. During WWI, Rommel, and 4 soldiers single handedly took out a garrison of French troops in the Alps. What he is noted for is his dominant conquest of Northern Africa; kicking the British all over the African continent, and almost eliminated the Allies from Africa completely. Which is how he earned the name "Desert Fox". However, WWII took a massive turn for Germany in Europe, and Hitler quit support for the African Campaign. This gave the Allies time to counterattack, and they did it with great success. From then on the rest is history.

Answer 4

Alexander the Great: he defeated every enemy and instituted Greek language and learning everywhere he went. Napoleon was a pale imitator. Hannibal eventually lost, as did Napoleon. Alexander merely contracted malaria and died.

Answer 5

General Robert E. Lee

Answer 6

Hannibal. His greatest enemies the Romans adapted his strategies in combat.

Answer 7

George Patton

Answer 8

The Best General Of all time was alexander the great..
Ithink this because he only have 40,000 men and he took on 250,000 persians and beat them all.....and his battle tactics were amazing

Answer 9

I would say Genghis Khan.
-He reunited the mongol tribes
-He founded the mongol empire
-He destroyed the great chinese Song dynasty
-He built a massive fleet consisting of tens of thousands of ships.
-He owned the entire asia, south and eastern europe.
-He did all that in a few decades.

Answer 10

General Lee.

Yeah, the car.