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re: Military experts: who is your worst general?
Posted on 12/17/25 at 9:10 am to goodgrin
Posted on 12/17/25 at 9:10 am to goodgrin
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Korean war - Douglas MacArthur. This fool had the ill prepared 8th Army wiped out by the Chinese army near the Yalu River in the early stages of the war.
He also presided over the fall of the Philippines, one of the great disasters in American military history. Over 100k Americans taken prisoner. Of course, he wasn't among them because he abandoned his men, leaving Wainwright to take the fall.
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Posted on 12/17/25 at 9:17 am to Roscoe14
MacArthur (Except Inchon in Korea, only one with balls to do it)
McClellan
Mark Clark
Dan Sickles
St.Clair
Horatio Gates
McClellan
Mark Clark
Dan Sickles
St.Clair
Horatio Gates
This post was edited on 12/17/25 at 9:18 am
Posted on 12/17/25 at 9:18 am to TexasTiger08
quote:George Armstrong Custer
who is your worst general?
Posted on 12/17/25 at 9:27 am to LSURussian
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who is your worst general?
George Armstrong Custer
last in his class at West Point, but he wasn't a general when he was killed. He was either a COL or a LTC at the time.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 9:49 am to A10Rebel
quote:
Hilter had a multitude of health issues impacting the decisions and choices he was making, though.
In the wise words of Deputy Barney Fife, he was a NUT.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 10:13 am to TexasTiger08
Vietnam: Westmoreland probably earns that title for being more political than strategically/tactically minded. But that doesn't necessarily rest entirely upon his shoulders.
Korea: I have no idea, although MacArthur did make some very dangerous statements regarding the use of nuclear weapons that he had no business making. He paid the price for it.
WWII: "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell. He completely screwed the pooch in the CBI theater, allowing it to get bogged down with chasing the Japanese through the jungles of Burma rather than getting into China and making use of bases of operation already set up and in use by the USAAF. (General Bissell - 10th AF would be a close second in regard to this as well.)
Modern era shittiest general would unquestionably be Milley. I shouldn't have to go into all the things that win him this title. Suffice it to say that he's been much more concerned about the fairness and equity image of his command than readiness to defend the country.
Korea: I have no idea, although MacArthur did make some very dangerous statements regarding the use of nuclear weapons that he had no business making. He paid the price for it.
WWII: "Vinegar" Joe Stillwell. He completely screwed the pooch in the CBI theater, allowing it to get bogged down with chasing the Japanese through the jungles of Burma rather than getting into China and making use of bases of operation already set up and in use by the USAAF. (General Bissell - 10th AF would be a close second in regard to this as well.)
Modern era shittiest general would unquestionably be Milley. I shouldn't have to go into all the things that win him this title. Suffice it to say that he's been much more concerned about the fairness and equity image of his command than readiness to defend the country.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 10:30 am to TexasTiger08
Dwight Manfredi
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:07 am to jflsufan
Leonidas Polk, confederate general that was so bad, the word in the union camp was to make damn sure he is unharmed.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:29 am to TexasTiger08
Worst:
Every union general before 1863
Overrated:
Robert E Lee: all he did was defend against a green Union army. Couldn’t adapt as the civil war progressed and fricked up badly at Gettysburg.
Rommel: Boosted by propaganda and lost cause narrative. Ignored logistics and accomplished nothing.
Every union general before 1863
Overrated:
Robert E Lee: all he did was defend against a green Union army. Couldn’t adapt as the civil war progressed and fricked up badly at Gettysburg.
Rommel: Boosted by propaganda and lost cause narrative. Ignored logistics and accomplished nothing.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 11:31 am to Traveler
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Not a General, but Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, CNO made a fine mess of the Navy when I served.
don't you just love when they name an entire class of ships after people like that?
Posted on 12/17/25 at 12:06 pm to DesScorp
quote:
Arnold may have actually been Washington’s best general.
Nope. That's Nathaniel Greene.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 12:15 pm to vl100butch
quote:That's true but he was promoted to Brigadier General during the Civil War.
he wasn't a general when he was killed.
quote:LINK
He was promoted in the early American Civil War (1861–1865), to brevet brigadier general of volunteers when only aged 23.
After the war, Custer was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the standing Regular Army and sent west to fight in the ongoing Indian Wars, mainly against the Lakota / Sioux and other Great Plains native peoples.
This post was edited on 12/17/25 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 12/17/25 at 12:55 pm to Centinel
Milley wins by far
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:59 am to TexasTiger08
General Horatio Gates at Camden, SC would surely be on the list.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:11 am to TexasTiger08
Mclellan really spit the bit at Antitam.
He either didn't dispatch scouts or didn't listen to them regarding crossing the river. He stalled his army when the river almost all around him was around 4 feet deep at it's deepest depth.
He either didn't dispatch scouts or didn't listen to them regarding crossing the river. He stalled his army when the river almost all around him was around 4 feet deep at it's deepest depth.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:14 am to TexasTiger08
Westmoreland and his "body count" were terrible.
We focus on the good ones but there were some really terrible generals in WW2, really bad.
We focus on the good ones but there were some really terrible generals in WW2, really bad.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:15 am to TexasTiger08
Nearly every American general at the start of WW1 and WW2 with a few notable exceptions. Every “great” general has had very questionable moments including Rommel and Patton. Napoleon was pretty lackluster for the second half of his career, eventually technology and the nature of warfare catches up to everyone
Posted on 12/18/25 at 11:50 am to TexasTiger08
Richard S. Ewell
Posted on 12/18/25 at 1:01 pm to EphesianArmor
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EphesianArmor
Burkhaulter was the right answer. You nailed this one!
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