Who's your favorite general, /pol/?

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>>131350094
My favorite is not a general.

Stonewall Jackson

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>>131350094

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i-is that trump?

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Zhukov

without a doubt, greatest general ever

>>131350094
http://researchlist.blogspot.com/2011/07/general-pattons-experiences-in-occupied.html

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>>131350094

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>>131350094
Would have won at Waterloo.

>>131350980
This

>>131350842
God-tier choice.

Smedley Butler. Two time Medal of Honor winner, wrote a book called "War is a Racket", became a vocal critic of US military and foreign policy.

>>131350094
Man that man has a sexy face only if he ran as president...

>>131350094
Chesty Puller

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>>131350094
>Who's your favorite general

General Electric

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General Tso

>>131350094
/Gtag/ is always good for a chuckle

OP Smith at the battle of chosen reservoir. He had read the impending situation perfectly and subtly worked against macarthur and need almond so that the 1st Marine division would be prepared to make a fighting escape. Although technically a loss the 1st Marines left with all their equipment and beat 8 Chinese divisions in the process, I believe two of the divisions never raised their colors again

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>>131350980
muh 20 million, no wonder why Russians lost so many people in the war

>>131351722
looks like feces

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>>131350094

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>>131350094

The General of /all/ Heavenly Forces....

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>>131350094
who ever was in command of the ship that hoisted the banner

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>>131351923
No wonder Germany won the war
hahahahahaha oh wait they didn't

>>131351923

Blame Stalin and his purges. Zhukov was handed a crippled Red Army against the Wehrmacht and he won.

>>131351538
This

>>131350094
Rockwell, fucking duh

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>>131350094

>>131350094
Chuikov
>>131350980
Okay choice too.

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>>131350094
syrian general btw

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Howell Cobb

>>131352886
McAurthur left his men, and my Uncle to die.
Fuck Him.

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He's Still Dead.

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>>131350094
This guy.

Erich von Manstein

And that's FIELD MARSHAL to you

>>131350842
The Lion of Africa

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>this triggers the Americans

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southerners btfo

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>>131350094

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Knew what had to be done, did it.

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The Desert Fox

>>131353392
This

>>131350094
ok is it me or does patton look a bit like trump?

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hes a truly based man thats never made a mistake

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>>131350094
Besides OP's, this man.

>>131353392
he fucking betrayed us but at least he saved his own people

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General Mills.

>>131355454
remember that time he blow an american ship the fuck up by accident in vietnam

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>>131350980

A Russian...great...general...<shakes head>

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Never has a man done so much with so little.

Belisarius.

>>131356910

Also, Stonewall Jackson and R.E. Lee. Strong.

I'll also throw in Hannibal before I go to bed.

Here's some rares: Edward IV; Cassivellaunus; Duke of Marlborough; Gustavus Adolphus*

*Also known as the last Swede not to pee sitting down.

>>131356073
He wanted to fight with the Axis powers but his generals convinced him not to.

>>131353474

You like flexible, high-mobility tactics, eh. Try this rare on for size.

Nathan Bedford Forest: one of the world's greatest cavalry commanders, and the innovator of both modern vehicle warfare (but with horses) and the KKK.

>>131350707
Beat me to it

>>131357156
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Narva_(1700)

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>>131350094
Tie between General Tso and THE General.

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Not a General, but Admiral "Ching" Lee was a true fucking baller.

>>131352565
yeah with 1 trillion people zerg rushing , imagine if germany had those numbers , they would be on fucking jupiter by now

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Who else but B A S E D M A D D O G

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>>131350094
Tso

Caesar obviously

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>>131350094

General "Mad Dog" Mattis. Semper Fidelis

>>131350094

General Term always has my back when I need to gesture my way out of any situation.

General Ridgway

>>131351172
THIS

>>131353392
no he sold spain to the american kikes through the marshall plan, never him

>>131350094
Hannibal.

>>131350707
Based leaf, this was best guy in entire WW2.

Trump... oh wait he's a draft dodging faggot.

>>131350707
Over-rated.

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>>131350094

>He'd laugh knowing the only thing that triggers Confederate cucks more was a black POTUS.

>>131350094
It's an even race between Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton. They won WWII, combined. Also of note, George Marshall.

Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was a hell of a general, too.

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>>131350955

Patton was trump past life.

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>>131350094
Erwin Rommel
Didn't care much for propaganda or wealth, just wanted to fight for his country and serve his duty to Germany. Honorable as fuck and his enemies held a great deal of respect for him. Fought hard as fuck for a cause he didn't fully believe in and sacrificed himself to save his family.

>>131360815
Eisenhower was a politician period. Bradley was a poor strategist and Patton drew a complete blank at Metz against Manteuffel as he had nothing to offer against a well defended position. He was just a loudmouth bully. Spaatz was the most effective and strategic burger in Europe. Truscott was a good tactician too.

>>131359923
Based

>>131352548
One country versus pretty much the whole world who gained ground and still held their own once the tide turned against them. Regardless of their beliefs, fuck ups, and ultimate failure, Germany earned respect.

General Piochet you communist faggot

>>131361880
dammit didn't mean to use that, I used it to respond to a swede

>>131361922
Italy, Hungary, Romania, Japan don't count?

>>131361646

Rommel was a terrible general. A genius divisional commander, probably the best tank tactician of the war, but an absolute disaster once he was promoted and had to manage logistics and grand strategy. He was WW2's clearest example of the Peter Principle.

The sheer amount of men, materiel, and supplies he threw away might've been decisive in the Axis loss.

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>>131350955
>>131355159

General Chaos.

Kutuzov, Rokosovskiy, Jukov.

>>131350094
Erhard Raus. The little Austrian genius who made Model and Manstein look good.

>>131356754
Last great general from Russia was called Bagration and he was a Scot

>>131351923
Military casualties are 1:1,3-1,5
Stop mixing military casualties with civilian casualties or I will start to include raped german whores in a killcount.

>>131362548
He was Georgian.

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>>131351172
this

easily the greatest American military mind. He turned what should have been a 1 1/2 year struggle into a 5 year full-out war. The only way Grant beat him was through sheer manpower. He just kept throwing bodies at Lee's masterful tactics. If the Union had a mind like Lee they would have ended the war in months

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>>131350980
>Zhukov

>here, have a literally unlimited supply of men, tanks, guns, and aircraft
>now go win against that guy who has none of those things :^)

He was barely Guderian-tier

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>>131350094

General Alcibiades ... who else ?

he was the first who stops the invasion from the "east"

he was a pioneer , not a puppet like the modern politicians

>>131350980
>without a doubt, greatest general ever
Not even close fellow leaf
1. Subutai
2. Khalid ibn al-Walid
3. Alexander the Great
4. Trần Hưng Đạo
5. Marcus Agrippa

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Suvorov
>Fought over a hundred battles
>Never been defeated
>Actually wanted to go up against Napoleon directly
>Slept and ate with his troops despite being of higher rank
>Publicly spoke out about the nobles; they couldn't do shit about it because they were relying on him too much

>>131362663
Lee fucked up tho. The south had nowhere near the industry or manpower to attack and throw around the north but he did anyway after a decisive victory. He attacked and lost so many men it was over. Dude had it 99% if he held and fortified but attacked. Then he lost his best general Stonewall. Dipshit won and lost the war at the same time

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Saladin

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This kills the Catholicuck

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>Fight the same battle a dozen times
>Keep ordering infantry attacks up mountains against dug in Austrian forces that have artillery
>Restrict your men from visiting prostitutes, that's a privilege for officers
>Execute your men when they fail to successfully carry out your idiotic battle plans

>>131362878
>Dipshit won and lost the war at the same time

He knew defeat was mathematically inevitable if the war continued, so he gambled everything on a decisive stroke into the North.

If only he'd considered/known how sick of the war Northerners were getting, he might've stuck to the defensive strategy and there might possibly be a CSA today.

Then Lincoln delivered the geopolitical masterstroke of the 19th Century with the Gettysburg Address, which made it politically impossible for the French and British to enter the war on the South's side (which they were basically about to do), and the South was permanently fucked.

Lee didnt fuck up, Lee issued an order at Gettysburg that was ignored/ misinterpreted however you want to interpret history and it cost the South the strategic advantage for the rest of the battle. Had Gettysburg gone the Souths way the North would have completely withdrawn from anywhere south of the Potomac and put a defensive circle around DC. Lee needed a extra wagon to cart his balls around in but shit happens.

>>131362133
>Italy fucking up again
>Go rescue their asses in Africa
>Up against superior, entrenched allied forces
>They control the sea
>In one year overwhelming numbers of American reinforcements will arrive
>goodluck.jpg

>Welcome home
>Things are not looking good
>Fuhrer's not taking things so well
>Want to station your SS Panzer Division in Normandy?
>Too bad Fuhrer says you can't
>Oops looks like we were wrong about the landing
>Oops looks like the panzers were too far for a decisive strike
>Here are your replacement tank crews, one week's training in dummy tanks
>We have only just enough fuel to drive to the front lines
>They control the sky
>goodluck.jpg

Little Germany was fighting on all fronts, massively outnumbered and undersupplied.

A slow-moving, calculated war of attrition would spell inevitable defeat.

IMO, risky gambits were the only viable strategy.

Rommel did nothing wrong.

>>131362973
In July 1187, Saladin captured most of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. On 4 July 1187, at the Battle of Hattin, he faced the combined forces of Guy of Lusignan, King Consort of Jerusalem, and Raymond III of Tripoli. In this battle alone the Crusader force was largely annihilated by Saladin's determined army. It was a major disaster for the Crusaders and a turning point in the history of the Crusades. Saladin captured Raynald and was personally responsible for his execution in retaliation for his attacks against Muslim caravans. The members of these caravans had, in vain, besought his mercy by reciting the truce between the Muslims and the Crusaders, but Raynald ignored this and insulted the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, before murdering and torturing a number of them. Upon hearing this, Saladin swore an oath to personally execute Raynald.Guy of Lusignan was also captured. Seeing the execution of Raynald, he feared he would be next. However, his life was spared by Saladin, who said of Raynald, "[i]t is not the wont of kings, to kill kings; but that man had transgressed all bounds, and therefore did I treat him thus."

>>131363915
Sandnigger

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Come on you faggots. This is some weak shit.

>>131363467
>IMO, risky gambits were the only viable strategy.

His gambit wasn't risky, it was literally guaranteed to fail, as absolutely everybody, from his own staff to OKW in Berlin, kept pointing out to him, and he kept telling them to stuff it because he was the Great Genius.

His lines of supply were impossibly long over terrible terrain. Gasoline deliveries to the front line were burning 33% of the fuel just to get it to where the tanks were. Tanks and trucks were arriving broken as fuck because they were having to drive 1000 km over rocks to get to the fighting. It was a strategically untenable situation.

And he could've fixed it by taking Tobruk, which would've cut the distance almost literally in half, but he refused to. He just kept demanding more stuff from Germany, even though the British were sinking half the ships, loaded with desperately-needed-elsewhere materiel, being sent to his stubborn ass.

And, as everyone was telling him, his depleted, under-armed and under-fuelled Korps, with no resupply for the above reasons, ran into the massive, very well-supplied and entrenched force Montgomery had been patiently building to smash him, and he got absolutely fucking smashed.

This is basic strategy. Keep your lines of supply short (especially when they by necessity have to cross enemy-occupied territory). ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK is awesome when you're a divisional commander working within the strategy of a good general, but a good general has to understand logistics. And he didn't.

>>131350094
Whoa I didn't know Trump was a general...

The American Caesar aka the Gaijin Shogun Douglas MacArthur

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>>131350094

This motherfucking hustler right here

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>>131362587
Bother to hook me up with one of your mail order brides?

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belisarius somehow never lost. Every time he would be engaged outnumbered 3:1 or more and still win. He had strategic hax. He essentially retook Italy with less then 1000 men.