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Is Norman Schwarzkopf the worst most overrated General in American

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Is Norman Schwarzkopf the worst most overrated General in American military history?

>use stealth bombers to bomb empty desert and dug in positions impervious to air bombing for over a month, can't even stop soviet era scuds from being launched at Israel
>lose border Saudi cities to Iraqis early in the war for 2 days cause you didn't think to defend them, resulting in massive propaganda coup for Saddam
>try a massive encirclement from which the majority of the republican guard and armoured forces escape from, only succeed in rounding up hundreds of thousands of surrendering and deserting low level infantry recruits
>bullshit your way through every press conference telling people that the entire RG tank force is destroyed and that Saddam is finished
>as a result president calls early ceasefire thinking Saddam is on the verge of being overthrown by rebels
>"oh yeah totally forgot about their helicopter force"
>tfw a month later rebellion is crushed and Saddam is back in power
>tfw your only real success of the war was bombing a bunch of retreating trucks full of loot from Kuwait

Fucking German generals, I swear...
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>>2220829
>Overrated

Fucking neck yourself you unaware piece of shit mongoloid troglodyte. Literally no one gives a fuck about him and very few people even hold him in praise. You only made this thread in an attempt to compensate for your microscopic plankton sized penis and to stir shit for no fucking reason.

Seriously just fucking end yourself and do the world a favor.
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>>2220844
Not an argument.
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>>2220844
Shouldn't you be dead Schwarzkopf?
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>>2220844
t.army brat with daddy issues

Norman Schwarzkopf is literally the only general in the last 20 years that the average American would be able to name.
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>>2220875

Patraeus is way more notable.
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>>2220829
>Won
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>>2220829
MacArthur or Patton are far more overrated.
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>>2220923
I think MacArthur was very effective as a military governor in the way he restructured and revolutionised japans economy and government system.
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>>2220923

I've rarely seen well-articulated critiques of MacArthur. They almost always seem to be aimed at his political positions, such as attacking the Bonus Army.

Either that or insisting he should have stuck to WPO-3 despite how stupid an idea that would have been.
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>>2220875
What about Mad Dog?
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>>2220875
>Who is McChrystal
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>>2220943

In a lot of ways he's responsible for the body count doctrine seen in Korea and Vietnam. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in the latter caused by the scotched earth/free-fire zones he personally advocated to Westmoreland, often backed by stupid racial theories like "The Asiatic soldier greatly fears artillery."
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>>2220875
You say that, but I'm only reminded of the guy because his name reminds me of Arnold, and I had forgotten about him for uh... good, 4, 5 years?
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>>2220943
>gets told Japan just bombed Pearl Harbor, get your planes in the air
>ok
>entire air force destroyed on the ground without a fight
>get told China is about to attack, warn the men, pull back you'll be overrun
>lol no way fag
>US forces sent in full retreat, multiple units overrun
>get so butthurt you try to get China nuked

MacArthur was a fucking hack.
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>>2221022
His goal was to provoke china into a full scale attack anyway to justify a nuclear war. Luckily Truman saw through his bullshit.

I'm sick of the "politicians not letting the army fight the war properly" meme that Vietnam revisionists always use. People don't realise that letting generals fight a war the way they want without political interference often means continuous escalation with no end in sight without regard to economic or political consequences
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>>2221060
A perfect example of this would be the German Kaiserreich in WW1 I think.
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>>2221060
>>2222146
trips and quads of truth.
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>>2220829
Seriously, fuck Custer and Eisenhower, too
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