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re: Military experts: who is your worst general?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:30 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:30 am to Darth_Vader
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give Westmorland a bit of a pass due to the fact he was very limited on options due to the level of micromanagement from Washington.
Virtually every major decision was micromanaged from the Oval Office.
If you want the worst military leader in history, it would have to be Saddam Hussein, who tried using Stalinist meat grinder tactics against the coalition. Stalin had near unlimited bodies to throw at the Wehrmacht.. Hussein did not.
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:07 pm to Darth_Vader
Westmoreland was an airborne artilleryman put in charge of a guerilla war. He was totally unsuited for that, but he had the right rank, and airborne was riding high at the time.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:08 pm to TexasTiger08
Percival
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:09 pm to TexasTiger08
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After watching a Vietnam documentary and reading a bit, it seems like Westmoreland dropped the ball at every turn. He wanted more troops, then sent them into these villages with a shitty plan at best. Is he on the list?
How would you go about winning that war given the rules of engagement?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:15 pm to Rankest
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Benedict
the egg mogul?
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:15 pm to TexasTiger08
I don't think there is any question that the man you seek is Luigi Cadorna of the Kingdom of Italy. An authoritarian who couldn't have given a shite less about his soldiers, the man ordered 11 nearly identical offensives against the same position from 1915-1917 before being absolutely embarrassed by a combined Austro-German offensive at the Battle of Caporetto in 1917. He hardly ever let his soldiers go home on leave from the front, delved out harsh punishments for the most minor of offenses, and deliberately undermined/ruined his own subordinates when they dared to question his tactics.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:19 pm to PJinAtl
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John Bell Hood
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:34 pm to TexasTiger08
Whoever was leading the Krauts on the eastern front in WW2. They should have been better prepared for the Russian winter and they all knew Stalin was a psychopath that would have killed every single human being in the Soviet Union to save his own skin.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:42 pm to TexasTiger08
Pemberton
Posted on 12/16/25 at 1:44 pm to Centinel
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Milley. And it's not close.
HAs to be top 5.
McClellan was a great office general, terrible field general.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:38 pm to TexasTiger08
General Burkhaulter frowns upon the question.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:40 pm to Pledge
Braxton Bragg thanks the Lord every day for Gideon Pillow.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:46 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Bragg was the worst general for the Confederacy and now we honor him by naming a large army base after him.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:51 pm to Snipe
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General Tso
Obviously.
He makes a mean chicken dish though.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:51 pm to TigerintheNO
BS…You don’t know anything about why he got wiped out…..
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:55 pm to prplhze2000
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Percival
Singapore was a disaster but Percival wasn’t up for the job.
If we’re talking Brits and hype/legend vs reality then it’s Bernard Montgomery
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:57 pm to tide06
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How would you go about winning that war given the rules of engagement?
I said at the beginning that I am not a military buff. I can’t call upon past wars or battles to throw out a better plan. That’s kind of why I asked. That said, it seems like his response was to just get more boots on the ground. Alienating locals while you burn down their huts is pretty damn foolish. I think his lack of a real reaction to casualty is what I thought was poor. It was like Les Miles constantly running up the gut.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 2:57 pm to TexasTiger08
Vietnam was a shitty plan in general. Everything from the draft to the one year tour.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 3:05 pm to OweO
The one thing I concluded from Vietnam is that if your not willing to do what it takes to win the war, then don't get involved.
Posted on 12/16/25 at 6:22 pm to DesScorp
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Benedict Arnold
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He let his ego ruin him.
More than that.
He was again passed over basically due to Washingtons Army needing the wagons and supplies from i think it was William Alexander (Lord Sterling as he called himself).
Several times passed over he realized he had no future in the Army. Broke after sinking what he had into the Revolution and permanently injured he was concerned with how to take care of his wife after all was over.
Britain offered him a retirement essentially securing his future.
Its more nuanced than what history remembers. Politics left him being passed over like half dozen times despite being very good.
Washington himself wrote Congress about several of the snubs in protest.
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