Who is the single worst military commander/leader in history?

>>2905582
Elphingstone.

>>2905588
from his wikipedia page:
"He was elderly, indecisive, weak, and unwell, and proved himself utterly incompetent for the post. His entire command was massacred during the British retreat from Kabul during January 1842."
jesus christ

>>2905582

John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel


Commanding a force with the purpose of bringing relief to the Duke of Brittany, Sir John was compelled to wait for stronger winds. During this wait he decided to take refuge in a nunnery, where his men "took no notice of the sanctity of the place and... violently assaulted and raped"[3] those they found inside. Further to this Sir John "allowed his men to ransack the countryside as they liked and to impoverish the people".[3] When the force eventually set out to sea, carrying with them goods stolen from a nearby church and under a pronouncement of excommunication from the wronged priests, the expedition was caught in a storm. Thomas Walsingham reports that during the panic of the storm, Sir John murdered those of his men who refused to make for shore for fear of being shipwrecked upon the rocks. Subsequently, after safely arriving on an island off the Irish coast, Sir John and his boat captain were swept back into the sea and drowned.[3]

Marechal. Francisco Solano Lopez

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>>2905582
>political appointee general by Jefferson who wanted to disband the army
>gets drunk while in command and surrenders detroit to the british without a fight because the indians ran around his fort and made a loud war cry

>>2905582
Stalin

>>2905617
This is what happens when the nobility stop being a warrior class.

>>2905595
This.
Cadorna was the worst.

>>2905582
Santa Ana gets my vote. His men supposedly didn't even know how to aim their weapons.

>>2905595
What's his name again?

>>2908458

This is what happens when you give military privileges to the nobility rather than on merit.

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>>2905595
Hey now, he would be very good at fighting the killbots.

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>General, the germans are massing in Ardennes and will break through at Sedan
>don't worry, our Maginot Line will stop them