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Re: Greatest MIlitary Leader
Jul 18, 2009 10:47 AM
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> The strange thing but I think that there are no good
> leaders in 19-20-21 centuries. As if they all had
> disappeared after Napoleon's wars.
> May be this is because modern armies are too
> restricted by the rules and doctrines .... and there
> is no place for creative
I disagree there have been quite a few. One of the problems may be that warfare has become more complicated and there has been in many cases a separation of political and military power.
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Re: Greatest MIlitary Leader
Jul 20, 2009 5:39 AM
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Yes' the separation of political and military power have a place. But when I speak that the army leaders are too restricted I mean that they are more responsible than they were in the past. This, and the fact that to do quickly a good career in army now is more difficult leads to " recession" of creativity...
may be this is the consequence of world wars?
Don't people trust army leaders now?
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Re: Greatest MIlitary Leader
Jul 25, 2009 1:11 PM
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You guys seem to have forgotten Georgi K. Zhukov. His tactics might not have been approved of in the West, but they worked. Any General that Stalin feared, had to have something going for him.
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If it isn't history, then it never happened.
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Re: Greatest MIlitary Leader
Oct 24, 2009 12:48 AM
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I feel a much overlooked general was Louis-Nicolas Davout, Napoleon's best marshal. Though Napoleon gets all the glory among the French, he in fact made a number of strategic errors, most notably launching unsustainable invasions of Egypt and Russia. Davout consistently had the best trained soldiers, the best intelligence, the best operational security and the best organized logistics of any general of the period. Unlike Napoleon himself, Davout never lost a battle. Davout was so indespensible, Napoleon left him behind in Paris during the Waterloo campaign as the only person he could trust to run the government in his absence. If Davout had been commanding Napoleon's left wing instead of Ney, Wellington's army would likely have been crushed.
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Re: Greatest MIlitary Leader
Oct 25, 2009 5:30 AM
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George Washington put together a rag tag army with cannons purchased from France and kicked the best proven army in the world out of North America.........
So he gets my vote.
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