>Without question. He doesn’t compare to Patton, who basically invented modern tank warfare.
As much as I like Patton, this isn’t true. Patton was the only US General smart enough to copy the German’s panzer tactics but the US army proceeded to ignore everything Patton and the German panzer generals had used until the 1980s. Most US generals had no idea how to properly use tanks during or after WW2. In the 80s some analysts decided to take a look at the tactics used by the Arab armies and the Israeli army.
What they expected was the Israeli’s using US army tactics and the Arab’s using Soviet tactics. What they discovered was Israeli’s had been using Blitzkrieg tactics from day one and the Arabs where using US army firepower tactics and getting their clocks cleaned. This led to the creation of the air/land battle doctrine for the US army which was basically just what Patton and the rest had done 40 years before with a different name.
Patton was an extremely good general and the best the allies produced but he didn’t create anything original.
Comparing Patton to Lee is not a good caparison. A better comapoarison is Patton to Jackson.