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Subject: GENERALS
usajoe    8/13/2007 6:26:14 PM
From the big 4 USA, UK, FRA, RUS, who has had the best Generals
of the past 100 years.
 
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boris the romanian       8/14/2007 12:52:56 AM
Deutschland!
 
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5thGuards       8/14/2007 7:31:48 AM
Id say Germans , Brits , Russians/Soviets , Americans had some great ones too.

 
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usajoe       8/14/2007 5:06:08 PM
Id say Germans , Brits , Russians/Soviets , Americans had some great ones too.

 
I agree with the Germans but you think the Brits had better Generals than the Americans,
i dont know about that one.
 
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ArtyEngineer       8/14/2007 7:32:08 PM
I cant think of a better British General than William Slim from within the last 100 years. 
 
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usajoe       8/15/2007 6:32:17 PM
I cant think of a better British General than William Slim from within the last 100 years. 
 
What? you forgot about Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig from WW1, LOL!!!
 
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Nasty German Idiot       8/19/2007 6:30:03 AM
France: 
 
Petains action in WW1 would make him my nomination for the French Generals.  (Although he stubled into that Maginot Line thing later and cooperated with his Vichy France. )   Verdum might have fallen without his organisation of defence there.
 
Otherwise, De Gaulle was good and had that special french note :)    Not decided between them...   this should be about military not political accomplishents no ?
 
 
US: 
George C. Marshall  -   organised the US Army from 1939-45, was the brain behind the Allied strategy that lead to victory.
 
Bradley:  Africa, Sicily, Normandy,  Ardennes, Bridge of Remagen,  tells you something.
 
UDSSR:
 
Schukow, commanded the Soviet West Army from 1941 to 1945, was responsible for the breakdown of Heeresgruppe Mitte.
 
Konev and Rokossovski battle for the second rank, not decided yet.
 
UK:
 
Monty ? :)
 
 
 
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ArtyEngineer    usajoe   8/19/2007 4:21:39 PM












I cant think of a better British General than William Slim from within the last 100 years. 

 


What? you forgot about Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig from WW1, LOL!!!



Please tell me you are joking!!!!  I do not consider "The butcher of the somme" to be a good general.
 
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flamingknives       8/19/2007 5:20:02 PM
Of course he was joking, but Haig wasn't as much of a monster as people make out. With the situation as it was on the Somme, commanding anything other than a massacre was reasonably difficulty. Communications were virtually non-existant, training was limited - this was the first outing of the British conscript army, after all. He wasn't great, but it's not like he did it deliberatly or even necessarily out of incompetance.

Rawlinson is probably worthy of note for his command of the 4th Army at Amiens.
Monty has merit as a full-spectrum general, although he certainly wasn't as tactically adept as many.
Slim and Alanbrooke are also worthy of note for WW2

Briggs and Templar deserve mention for their part in defeating the Malayan insurgency, and Walker in Borneo was worthy of the company of all of the above, IMHO.
 
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Heorot       8/20/2007 2:02:03 PM
Can we have Monash as British?
 
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