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Subject: Underrated Generals
Commander    12/30/2005 3:47:58 AM
If there is an overrated general there must be underrated ones. I would put my vote to Pyrrhus. One of the greatest commanders in the ancient world his name is now synonymus to a pyrrhic victory. He had the bad timing of fighting both Rome and Carthage.
 
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BasinBictory    RE:Underrated Generals   12/30/2005 4:18:56 AM
How about Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery? He regularly was pilloried in the American press as being too timid, particularly in comparison to the hyper-aggressive Patton, but as he was following Churchill's understated advice to preserve the next generation of British youth rather than bury them in the mud of France (or Africa) like their fathers' generation, he succeeded admirably. Also William Slim, whose Fourteenth Army (affectionately known as the Forgotten Army) in Burma developed tactics that allowed them to beat the Japanese at their own game was instrumental in staving off the Japanese threat to India. He was underrated because he fought in a very obscure theater of the war.
 
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AlbanyRifles    RE:Underrated Generals   12/30/2005 9:51:56 AM
Anyone with a clue values Slim. He is not underrated in professional circles. William Hazen Read about him at the Battle of Stones River George A. Custer By 1863 he was the best cavalry brigade commander, Union or Confederate.
 
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Commander    RE:Underrated Generals   1/2/2006 2:34:35 AM
I would also like to add Mannerheim. He was the Finnish general responsible of commanding the Finnish army during the Russo-Finnish war. When the Russians invaded Finland they expected a quick and easy victory instead it became a high casualty war in which even the Finns manage to invade Russian territory. But eventually the demographics was not in thie side nad they were eventually beaten. Although his nation was part of the Axis powers and surrendered during WWII he manage to keep his country independent during the post war years and to this day.
 
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Carl S    RE:Underrated Generals   1/7/2006 12:59:18 AM
From the US in WWII: Kruger & Devers. Maybe not underrated but rather obscure.
 
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ambush    RE:Underrated Generals   1/7/2006 5:05:25 PM
George Washington
 
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jellicoe    RE:Underrated Generals   1/8/2006 6:40:52 PM
Walker, Puller, Hodges, Stillwell....
 
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xylene    RE:Underrated Generals   2/16/2006 1:43:24 PM
I think Genghis Khan's generals Chepe Noyon and Subotai Bahadur do not get the credit they deserve. They waged incredible long range campaigns for that time period and defeated numerically superior forces and subjugated vast streches of territory. Subotai was instrumental in the Khans invasion of Korea and China. Chepe Noyon with limited manpower pushed through Iran around and into the Crimea. I think both were with Genghis Khan when he attacked modern day Afganistan and India. A great book on the subject is titled "Genghis Khan" by Harold Lamb written in the 1920's. Can be found on ebay most likely since it is out of print.
 
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PowerPointRanger    RE:Underrated Generals   7/20/2006 1:28:49 PM
James Longstreet This was a man way ahead of his time. He basically wrote the book for WWI era warfare in 1861. He fought in the Civil War from Bull Run to Appomattox Courthouse. Forces under his command during the Civil War never lost a defensive position. He was largely responsible for Confederate victories at the Battle of Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Fredricksburg, and Chickamauga. His defense of Richmond was so successful that it nearly cost US Grant his command of the Army of the Potomac. His philosophy was to find a strong defensive position that would force the enemy to attack on unfavorable terms. Once the enemy had weakened, counter-attack and drive them from the field. This philosophy was not popular among his more aggressive peers, Lee and Jackson, who favored attack, even at a heavy cost. Following the death of Jackson, Lee began to rely increasingly on Longstreet, but only after the outcome of the war was all but decided. Longstreet was one of the first generals of the age to realize that technology had changed the fundamental tactics of war, from the cavalry charge of the Napoleonic age to the trench warfare of WWI. Following the Civil war, Longstreet became the scapegoat for the Confederate defeat. His critics pointed to his command of the failed Pickett's Charge during Gettysburg (a charge which he opposed, but was overruled by Lee). The criticism only got worse when he became a Republican. History has vindicated Longstreet. He is now seen as perhaps the most capable and intelligent leader of the war.
 
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evlstu    RE:Underrated Generals   8/23/2006 12:26:28 PM
General Thomas He was the ONLY general, north or south, who was sucessful in conducting a double evelopment.
 
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