Who are the 10 greatest military generals of all time???
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In no particular order (and these were Generals who were good at being Generals on the Battlefield, not battalion commanders who excelled and later become Generals, like Hal Moore)\n\nAlexander the Great - conquered the known world by the time he was 26\n\nErwin Rommel - the Desert Fox. Would have won in WW2 North African if he's been given the supplies\n\nArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - victor in India, Portugal, Spain, and at Waterloo. \nBernard Law Montgomery - inpsired his troops, designed and delivered victory in the Battle of Normandy\n\nG.B.P 'Pip' Roberts (The Black Bull, WW2) - youngest Major General in the British Army, led 11th Armoured from Normandy into Germany. Best tank leader and often overlooked. \n\nGeorge S. Patton - made Stormin Norman look like he was playing with toys. Put fear into the Nazis\n\nRobert E. Lee - led Johnny Reb, inspired his troops, nearly beat the Feds\n\nHanibal Barca - amazing adventures\nVo Nguyen Giap- took on the French and won, then the US, and Won\nGeory Zhukov - Red Army leader that did more than anyone to defeat the Wehmacht
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Generals, with 59 members of the graduating class of 164 becoming at least brigadier (1 star) generals. There were two who made General of the Army (5 star) in Dwight Eisenhauer and Omar Bradley.\n\nA complete list can be found at
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You are very inaccurate. This is the real ranking. \n\nMilitary: \nNOTE: Nuclear weapons, past and current military experience, unit training and equipment quality are not taken into account.\n\n1.)  United States of America \n2.)  China \n3.) Russia\n4.) India\n5.) Germany\n6.)  France\n7.)  Japan\n8.) Turkey\n9.) Great Britain\n10.) Brazil\n11.) Italy\n12.) South Korea \n13.) Indonesia\n14.) Canada\n15.) Iran\n16.)Spain\n17.) Egypt\n18.)  North Korea\n19.) Australia\n20.) Pakistan\n21.) Mexico\n22.) Saudi Arabia\n23.) Israel\n24.) Argentina\n25.) Greece\n26.) Syria\n27.) Iraq\n28.) Taiwan\n29.) Poland\n30.) Philippines\n31.) Ukraine\n32.) Venezuela\n33.) Libya\n34.) Afghanistan\n35.) Nepal\n\nEconomy: \n1.) USA\n2.) Japan\n3.) Germany\n4.) China\n5.) UK
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Eisenhower (american), Montgomery (brit), Rommel (german), de Gaulle (french) in a nutshell
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UK:  Field Marshall Sir Bernard Law Montgomery\n     Air Marshall Cuningham\n     General Sir Harold Alexander\n     Rear Admiral Reginald G.H. Henderson\n     Admiral Sir Philip Vian\n     General Sir Richard O'Connor\n     General Sir Alan Brooke\n\nUSA:  General Dwight D. Eisenhower\n      General Douglas MacArthur\n      General Wainright\n      General "howlin mad" Smith\n      General Omar Bradley\n      General Vandegrift\n      Admiral Chester W. Nimitz\n      Admiral William F. Halsey\n      General George S. Patton\n      General Hap Arnold\n      General Buckner\n      General Curtis LeMay\n      General George C. Kenney\n      Admiral Raymond A. Spruance\n      General George C. Marshall\n      General Mark W. Clark\n      Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Walker\n      Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes\n      \nGermany:  Field Marshall Erwin Rommel\n          Luftewaffe Marshall Gerring\n          Admiral Dernitz\n          General Kesselring\n          Field Marshall Jodel\n          Heinrich Himmler\n          Maj. General Dietrich von Choltitz\n          Feldmarschall Gunther von Kluge\n          General Heinrich von Vietinghoff\n          Generalleutnant Fridolin von Senger\n          \n          \nJapan:  General Tojo\n        Admiral Yamamoto\n        General Tokugawa\n        General Takeo Yasuda\n        Admiral Chuichi Nagumo\n        General Tomoyuki Yamashita\n\nThere are many more that I can't think of right off the top of my head.  I just got home from work and my brain is fried.  I hope this helped.
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If by chief, you mean commander-in-chief, then that would be George dubbya Bush. Thank you
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If your talking abut floor generals, then yes he is the one of the best along with Nash.\nIf your talking about all the leaders in the NBA, head coaches included. HELL NO
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There is lot of stuff availabe on the internet. \nSearch the sites of UNO\nSecurity council \nPersonl sites of all secretairy generals
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As far as rank goes, it can be argued that both Washington and Eisenhower were the highest ranking. The ranking in Washington's time is not the same as it was during Eisenhower's.\n\nGeorge Washington - Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution. \nJames Monroe - served in American Revolution \nAndrew Jackson - American Revolution, War of 1812, First Seminole War \nWilliam Henry Harrison - Indian wars in the NW territory, War of 1812 \nJohn Tyler - War of 1812 \nZachary Taylor - War of 1812, Black Hawk, Second Seminole, and Mexican wars \nFranklin Pierce - Mexican War \nJames Buchanan - War of 1812 \nAbraham Lincoln - Black Hawk War \nAndrew Johnson - Civil War \nUlysses Grant - Mexican War, Civil War \nRutherford Hayes - Civil War \nJames Garfield - Civil War \nChester Arthur - Civil War \nBenjamin Harrison - Civil War \nWilliam McKinley - Civil War \nTheodore Roosevelt - Spanish-American War \nHarry Truman - WWI \nDwight Eisenhower - WWII General \nJohn Kennedy - WWII \nLyndon Johnson - WWII \nRichard Nixon - WWII \nGerald Ford - WWII \nGeorge Bush - WWII
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George Washington\nRobert E Lee\nStonewall Jackson\nWilliam S Sherman\nJohn Pershing\nDwight Eisenhower\nOmar Bradley\nDouglas McArthur
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Just like I figured, the usual names that are mostly a product of the press they've received.  Stonewall Jackson was probably the best general of the Civil War on either side, with a grasp of operational level warfare seen only by Prussian and German generals (and good old Napolean).  \n\nThe best general we had in WWII was Alexander Patch, the only general to have major commands in all 3 theaters of war (European, Mediterranean, and Pacific), who never lost a major unit and accomplished every mission assigned to him.\n\nPatton is forever overrated for too many reasons to mention here, and MacArthur was brilliant one minute and incredibly stupid the next.  Eisenhower ended up being a politician in uniform, and had next to no battlefield experience.
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Greatest of All Time (GOAT) list
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Lieutenant General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller \n(he was a Colonel at the time, of course)\n\nFull article here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller
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CHIEF, PRESIDENT, SENIOR, SULTAN, COMMANDER, ETC.?
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Adolf Hitler. He counts as 10 idiots for sure!
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My Top Ten:\n\n1.) Jim Brown\n2.) Emmitt Smith\n3.) Walter Payton\n4.) Barry Sanders\n5.) Terrell Davis\n6.) Gale Sayers\n7.) Earl Campbell\n8.) O.J. SImpson\n9.) Eric Dickerson\n10.) Tony Dorsett
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Five-Star Generals and Dates of Rank:\n\nGeneral of the Army George C. Marshall: December 16, 1944\n\nGeneral of the Army Douglas MacArthur: December 18, 1944\n\nGeneral of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower: December 20, 1944\n\nGeneral of the Army Henry H. Arnold: December 21, 1944\n\n(Redesignated General of the Air Force pursuant to Public Law 58, 81st Congress, approved May 7, 1949):\n\nGeneral of the Army Omar N. Bradley: September 20, 1950 \n\nThe Navy's Five-Star Fleet Admirals:\n\nAdmiral William D. Leahy \nAdmiral Ernest J. King\n\nAdmiral Chester Nimitz\n\nAdmiral William F. "Bull" Halsey\n\nThe Air Force Five-Star General:\n\nGeneral Henry "Hap" Arnold --Note: General Arnold actually was awarded this rank twice. In 1944, he received his fifth star while the air force was still part of the Army. It was then known as the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the Air Force separated from the Army, he became the new service's only Five-Star General.