Who Is Greatest Military Commander in History?

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Who Is Greatest Military Commander in History?


Belisarius help recapture the Western Roman Empire for the Byzantines conquering much of North Africa and Italy from the Germanic tribes which defeated Rome. Especially the Vandals.

Subotai had more than 15 campaigns and was the major strategist for Jenghis (Genghis) Khan. He used Mongol Central Asian tactics to great effect against less mobile forces.He is most remembered for devising the battle plan that destroyed the armies of Hungary and Poland within 2 days of each other, by forces almost a thousand miles apart and realized the importance of Chinese techology especially siege machines.

I'm not gonna go into further detail but tell me who's your fav. military commander and back it up with details

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...but the greatest Roman General was Sertorius ...the one least interested in politics and therefore the one least mentioned in history. However, like Memnon vs Alexander, his contemporary's obviously repsected him enough to rarely have a bad word said against him, and it is not often that you have a man so unknown by the public who, and I'm going from memory here, plutarch felt could have, and should have, been the greatest Roman General of his time.....

Answer 2

khalid bin walid of the rashidun caliphate he brought the 2 super powers the 2nd persian empire and the byzantine empire to their knees with a much smaller and less well equipt army

Answer 3

If i may I'm going to make a list. So here it is:

1. Alexander the Great (Greek)
2. Kublai Khan (mongol)
3. Genghis Khan (Mongol)
4. Minamoto Yoshitsune (Japanese and my Favorite)
5. Scipio (roman)
6. Hannibal (Carthaginian)
7. Richard the First
8. Salah-al-Din
9. George S. Patton
10. Nimitz
11. Hitler
12. Eisenhower
13. Churchill
14. Julius Caesar
15. Octavius Augustus Caesar
16. Mark Antony
17. Darius
18. Xerxes
19. MacArthur
20. Robert E. Lee

Answer 4

I'm going to make this as unbiased as Im able to. Im gonna tell you in order of "success". The Mongols, under the Kahn's, created the biggest empire that ever existed, even if it wasnt very long, and thus I believe it should be between Genghis and Kublai Kahn, but if anything, first place goes to Genghis for reuniting his troops from such a small place and conquering ALL THAT LAND. seriously. it was the biggest empire that ever existed

Answer 5

I've never heard of "Subotai", but I was going to nominate Genghis Khan as one of my candidates.

But in your question, you asked for "Commanders", not strategists or tacticians; so one would have to presume, that Subotai could not be considered as a legitimate answer to your question.

If I'm not mistaken, one person not mentioned so far, is Julius Caesar. Without his victories over various tribes and other adversaries, he would never have become the first supreme political leader of Rome.

And I might add, that the titles "Czar" and "Kaiser" are derivatives of the title, "Caesar". His troops adored him, and he was undeniably one of the greatest Military Commander of all times.

My last two nominees are too well known for their "commanding" expertise to necessitate any further elaboration by me: Alexander the Great and Napoleon.

Wotan

Answer 6

my favourite military commander.....alexander the great,even though some of his conquests were not so glorious
Take 4 example his entry in egipt....they had surrended....
But to be a great military leader ...it takes some intelligence, and his most important point was the surprise,which he really used eficiently....nobody was expecting of the young teenager to strike so hard and so soon
Another big point was the fact that he was courageous,he fought with the army,and that's exactly wt napoleon did
He encouraged the men,he was there 4 them,he knew their limits,and because he didn't push them when it wasn't absolutly necesarly,they were always willing to die 4 them.
He had a very small mutany history.
He was most of the time in the front line,amasing example, but eventualy that's wt killed him,and i would have liked it better if he would have not done that...since it was the end of a mighty empire.....
the history may be completely different now,if he would of taken more care of himself


I also love tigran the great,king of armenia....
he payed 4 his kingdom with 70 fields,i believe,but he soon retieved them,and not later than 10 years,he had under his rule,the entire actual turkey.
He didnt stop there,he went to the south and took everything in his way
When he got old,he became a little crazy,killed his son, fought the romans a bit,became paranoic

Essential is that wt he did in his youth was remarcable.The greatesc king of Armenia.

And there are lots of others people know few about,like Burebista,the king of the Daci,north to the Danubius,est to the Tise,south to the actual Ucraine,west to the actual Moldau
and to the Black sea.

Both him and Tigran were greatest kings of kingdoms who fell apart and never got back to their former glory

Answer 7

Although many have made contributions that have significantly had an impact in history, but the first that comes to mind is Alexander The Great he was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks.

Answer 8

Alexander the Great. Not only did he conquer an immense empire, he transmitted Greek philosophy to much of the world, which reverberated through time from Egypt to the Roman empire to Christianity to Western Europe to America.

And he did all of that while never seeing his thirty-fourth birthday.

I was barely housebroken when I turned thirty-four.

Answer 9

Not even an opinion.... FACT.... Genghis Khan :-)

Answer 10

Hello, All,

No doubt in my mind. It is Hannibal. He was only one of two field commanders who had an extraordinary sense of the battlefield. The other was Napoleon.

Terry