Alexander??Hannibal??Julius Caesar??JOshua(of the bible)?? anybody else you can think of? who was the best at tactics and strategy and the greatest at evrything.
2007-02-03 11:38:26 · 8 answers · asked by Michael 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I believe most historians will say Alexander the Great. He was certainly the greatest in the Western world. Maybe there was someone like Kublai or Gengis Kahn in the East. Some might even say that General Dwight Eisenhower was the greatest military genius in history. Maybe there should be some specific criteria that can be used to compare all and see what we come up with.
2007-02-03 11:45:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Julius Caesar. He came up with the turtle, the for runner of the modern main battle tank.
Next would be George Washington: He took a rag tag army and defeated the British Army ,which was the best army in the world at the, with it.
Next would be General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate army whose tactics ran Union Army in circles.
Next would be General Gap of the North Vietnamese Army who used Stonewall Jackson's tactics against the American army in Vietnam.
Next would be Monty (Field Marshall Montgomery) who kept his out numbered out gunned British Army from getting surrounded and annihilated by Field Marshall Rommel's Africa Corps. Then drive Rommel's Africa Corps all the way back to Libya from Egypt and defeat it.
And on the sea it was:
Lord Nelson of the British Royal Navy.
Sir Francis Drake of the British Royal Navy
Admiral Halsey of the American Navy
Admiral Chester Nemeist (misspelled) of the American Navy.
2007-02-03 12:03:26 · answer #2 · answered by JUAN FRAN$$$ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sun Tzu. The book Art of War that he wrote still applies to today's military tactics. His tactics were used by all the great military leaders.
2007-02-03 11:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by Sergeant Major 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alexander the Great. He conquered the known world before he was 30.
2007-02-03 11:43:42 · answer #4 · answered by Lamont Cranston 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alexander hands down. His military tactics are still used today.
Also, he had to pay for his wars as he went.
2007-02-03 11:45:03 · answer #5 · answered by chimpus_incompetus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alexander the Great. He invented techniques and weapons still in use today.
2007-02-03 11:44:04 · answer #6 · answered by Beachman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Julius Ceaser and the man had balls! I wish our King could be like that.
2007-02-03 11:43:17 · answer #7 · answered by huckleberry 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Patton without a doubt. He could take 5 tanks and whip upon 60 tanks and never lose a man. But those Military Leaders are gone thanks to politicians who now think they know how to run a war.
2007-02-03 11:45:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋