Posted on 04/09/2017 8:20:32 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
Most of the German generals were not Nazis. There were plots to take out Hitler way before 1939.
Patton studied Guderian’s tactics and improved them.
It was the greatest defeat ever suffered by the DemonRats but they are ready to do it again.
Rommel invented tank warfare.
Rommel invented tank warfare.
You might want to read up on Heinz Guderian.
Right. Rommel perfected it and made money writing books about it.
Here's another opinion, from Theodore Roosevelt: “As a mere military man Washington himself cannot rank with the wonderful war-chief who for four years led the Army of Northern Virginia.”
Roosevelt also said, that Lee “will undoubtedly rank as without any exception the greatest of all the great Captains that the English-speaking people have brought forth - and this, although the last and chief of his antagonists may claim to stand as the full equal of Marlborough and Wellington.”
Grant’s river campaigns in the West mark him out as a great general.
> Most of the German generals were not Nazis. There were plots to take out Hitler way before 1939. <
Right. But before the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler, generals could carry personal sidearms when attending Fuhrer conferences. Imagine how things would have changed if one of those generals had shot Hitler in, say, early 1938.
Guderian was the best German armored warfare general.
May be true. Patton did command tanks and theorize about them well before Rommel.
That’s right. One right behind the ear would have done the trick.
Agree.Face it, the krauts figured out mechanized warfare real quick becasue they were on the receiving end at the tail end of WWI.
Patton was an asshole. But he was a competent asshole.
Rommel picked it up from the Brits who invented the tank (with Churchill's backing) in WWI. They did a number of studies after the Great War but ignored them. Rommel read them and improved on them.
> Patton was an *sshole. <
Yep. An older acquaintance of mine served in Patton’s Third Army. He hated Patton with a passion. Patton once personally fined my acquaintance for not wearing a tie...in a combat zone.
Comparing Patton to Lee is not a good caparison. A better comapoarison is Patton to Jackson.
He led tanks in WW I and went to the French Tank school. That’s when he was shot in the butt.
Early on, Patton and Ike were almost decapitated by a snapped cable when working with tanks.
Grant was the general who in Lincoln's words, could "face the arithmetic." He did what he had to do to win but he had his share of blunders - Chickasaw Bayou during the Vicksburg campaign, Spotsyvania, Cold Harbor. I don't consider him in any way brilliant.
It's arguable that Sherman was both smarter and more effective than Grant. Sherman learned over the course of the war. Grant really didn't. If you compare how Sherman developed as a general, after his failure to entrench at Shiloh, the futile assaults at Chickasaw Bayou and Missionary Ridge, he seems to have reassessed his tactics. During the Atlanta campaign and the march to the sea he used maneuver as a means of taking objectives as opposed to frontal assaults on entrenched positions defended by skilled veterans armed with rifled muskets. Grant on the other hand just kept throwing bodies at fortified positions.
Rommel learned everything from Guderian. Guderian was the father of the Blitzkrieg.
What is interesting is that we see the war as ancient times when it is really not that far behind us. We see such war as nearly impossible today but they probably did too.
There was a respect between these men that I wish we had today.
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