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Greatest military commander (any branch of service) in U.S. history?

Posted on 2/16/14 at 8:57 pm
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 8:57 pm
Who've you got?
Posted by Diddles
LA
Member since Apr 2013
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 8:58 pm to
Jesus
Posted by doublecutter
Hear & Their
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 8:59 pm to
General Robert E Lee
Posted by Buddy Garrity
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:00 pm to
Ulysses S. Grant
Posted by CherryGarciaMan
Sugar Magnolia
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:01 pm to
Washington
Sherman
MacArthur

(In chronological order)
Posted by goldenbadger08
Sorting Out MSB BS Since 2011
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:01 pm to
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Posted by Jwodie
New Orleans
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:01 pm to
Close call, but I'll go G.I. Joe.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:02 pm to
Patreaus
Posted by IonaTiger
The Commonwealth Of Virginia
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:02 pm to
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General Robert E Lee


Maybe when he was CSA, not when he was USA.
Posted by Damn Good Dawg
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Posted by lsu_tiger_az
AZ/LA
Member since Mar 2004
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:06 pm to
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Who've you got?


George Patton and Curtis LeMay would top my list....


Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:06 pm to
Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC. Two Medals of Honor, and saved the United States from a military coup during the Great Depression.
Posted by TigerLicks
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:10 pm to
"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."- Gen. George Patton
Posted by Turkey_Creek_Tiger
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:11 pm to
Douglas McArthur
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:12 pm to
Grant
Washington
Nimitz
Posted by BeerCity
Asheville, North Carolina
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:12 pm to
Patton. Hardcore SOB.
Posted by Damn Good Dawg
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:14 pm to
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Posted by BamaScoop
Panama City Beach, Florida
Member since May 2007
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:14 pm to
During war I would say Patton in the field but I think overall planning was Ike.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
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Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:14 pm to
Eisenhower
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98190 posts
Posted on 2/16/14 at 9:16 pm to
quote:

Douglas McArthur


MaCarthur should have been courtmartialed twice for gross negligence: For failing to prepare for the Japanese invasion of the Phillipines, and again in Korea for ignoring intelligence reports of an imminent Chinese counterattack.
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