Greatest military mind ever?
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Ok we've established hitler isn't the greatest.how about some arguments for the other people?
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Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, William the Conquerer, Barbarossa, Rommel, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Good commander, Yamamoto, just had no choice but to attack Pearl Harbor (he didn't want to, as he knew it would be disastrous for the Japanese). Then you also have Nodunaga Oda, Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang, and several other commanders from those times (whose names escape me).
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Shaka Zulu, anybody that can use spears against gun and win has to be up there.
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jbrettlip wrote:How about Sgt. Slaughter? He did a really good job against the Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff.
The Russian Bear!
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How 'bout a mention for Spartacus?
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GabonX wrote:Hitler actually made a number of huge blunders. Had he listened to his generals the world may have turned into a very different place.
Hitler had some brilliant people underneath him, Rommel included, but in and of himself he was not a military genuis. Quite the opposite in fact.
true, when Goring told him that the Germans were not completely ready for a full scale invasion of the USSR, he didn't bother listening
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I'm sitting in a class on World War Two and I just asked my professor if there's any one man who can be attributed with devolping the Blitzkrieg. The answer? Heinz Guderian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Gude ... z_Guderian
What I'm hearing is that Guderian developed the strategy and Rommel was the one who first used it to great success.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Gude ... z_Guderian
What I'm hearing is that Guderian developed the strategy and Rommel was the one who first used it to great success.
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I've conquer Alexander's Empire numerous times, I think I may be the greatest military mind ever...
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naxus wrote:Who do you think was the greatest military mind of all time?
Fucken Patton
but actually ever?
Sun Tzu's
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Kingdroid wrote:naxus wrote:Who do you think was the greatest military mind of all time?
Fucken Patton
but actually ever?
Sun Tzu's
jsut going off Art of War ofc
Patton was great in terms of military strategy, but he has a horrible temper...
TheSaxlad wrote:The Dice suck a lot of the time.
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Can't believe I forgot Belisarius; the last great Roman general. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius
Not leaders, but two really cool soldiers were Alvin York in WWI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
and Peter Francisco in the Revolution [url](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Francisco)[/url]
Not leaders, but two really cool soldiers were Alvin York in WWI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
and Peter Francisco in the Revolution [url](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Francisco)[/url]
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jonesthecurl wrote:No absolute opinion but Hannibal deserves a mention.
Winner. And no, Scipio Africanus isn't one up on him... he beat Hannibal w/ two or three times Hannibal's troops and much better equipment and training. Hannibal, almost without contest... only one I might put up against him is Tamerlane. You think Genghis Khan was good...
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Has anyone mentioned RAMBO
He knows how to take out an entire VC camp all by himself. I rest my case.
He knows how to take out an entire VC camp all by himself. I rest my case.
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Nikolai wrote:jonesthecurl wrote:No absolute opinion but Hannibal deserves a mention.
Winner. And no, Scipio Africanus isn't one up on him... he beat Hannibal w/ two or three times Hannibal's troops and much better equipment and training. Hannibal, almost without contest... only one I might put up against him is Tamerlane. You think Genghis Khan was good...
Hannibal was good, but at Zama, they both had about 40,000 troops or so, but Hannibal had elephants as well, just that the Roman troops opened up paths for the elephants to run straight through, making them about harmless.
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Greatest Military Mind ever?
George W. Bush!
C'mon...is this even argument?
George W. Bush!
C'mon...is this even argument?
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Juan_Bottom wrote::x damnitt! Backglass made me laugh!
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Kingdroid wrote:actually ever?
Sun Tzu's
jsut going off Art of War ofc
This may be the best answer that anyone has provided here. If only we could know whether or not it was written by one person or if there were many contributors.