Greatest Military Strategist?

[lurkingdirk]

Whoever built the Trojan *****.

That **** was brilliant.

 

[Sam Fisher]

He does not even deserve a spot on the poll. He may not have started Gettysburg, but when he got there, choose to continue a battle against a superior ***** who held the high ground, and did so with little intelligence on enemy troops. If he had been up against a great Union General (instead of an average one) the war would have ended there.

"If" is a cop-out response.

If Hitler would have been run over by a ******* Jew in 1933, WWII may very well never have happened. Unfortunately, that particular Jew didn't own a car, so he stumbled home *****.

:dunno:

 

[Neutron66]

Whoever built the Trojan *****.

That **** was brilliant.

According to Ben Bova, it was a guy named Orion.

 

[BCT]

Sgt. Hulka

 

[Sam Fisher]

Greeks = Trojan *****

 

[Jagger69]

Der Wüstenfuchs, Erwin Rommel :bowdown:

Rommel was a undoubtedly a genius but I have to give the nod to Gen. Heinz Guderian. Guderian's armored blitzkrieg tactics predated Rommel and revolutionized mechanized warfare forever. In fact, had Hitler allowed Guderian to destroy the Allies at Dunkirk instead of letting Goering convince him that the Luftwaffe could do the job, the Germans would likely have won the war. Hitler's most critical error in the entire conflict without question IMO.

One could also make a strong case for Hannibal since he came up with the classic double-envelopment tactic at Cannae but I voted "other" for Guderian anyway.

 

[Ike Stain]

Ender!

 

[Red XXX]

Francis Drake
Oliver Cromwell
Duke of Wellington

and slightly left field so to speak

Red Cloud
David Stirling

 

[Straight Shooter]

Barack Obama

 

[Ike Stain]

Cnut the Great!

 

[Jagger69]

Red Cloud

If you mention Red Cloud, you must also mention Tatanka Yotanka, Crazy *****, Ten Bears and perhaps the greatest of all, Chief Joseph.

 

[Sam Fisher]

I think the period in which they lived and the "field" in which they performed should play a factor. For example, Admiral Chester Nimitz was a great naval strategist.

 

[Master Roshi]

The Banking Aristocracy of Europe

 

[ralph furley]

napoleon

 

[Sam Fisher]

God.

 

[Red Spyder]

General Vo Nguyen Giap, influence part of the enemy's population and have them engineer their own defeat from within. Piece of genius!

 

[Ike Stain]

Osama Bin Ladin. With only 19 soldiers he bankrupted the west.

 

[Hondarobot]

Tough call, but I'll go with Alexander. He conquered the "known world" by the time he was 30 years old, among other things. Really after putting "Conquered Known World" on your resume, you can pretty much stop typing.

On the other hand he did drop dead at the age of 32, so he kinda sucked at not dying.

Beyond the poll choices, I'd pick Doctor Doom.

 

[gunslingingbird]

Isildur, *** of Elendil

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Captain Cruch