[Senator Pardek]

Jesus H. Christ. His existence (and death) eventually brought down the Roman Empire without firing as much as a pellet gun.

Who alive today thinks of Jupiter as neither a planet or Cornwallis' fictional dog?!

[Getsmart64]

Grant was a ruthless military commander....as far as American Military commanders...Grant won more battles by losing more men than his enemy....the enemy was out manned and out gunned and still inflicted more causalities...many Northerners wanted Grant strung up from the nearest tree....he wasted many of lives when he didn't need to....eventually the South would have had to succumb to the North due to economics...

[JustAnotherOkie]

How about 'John Kerry', 'Saddam Hussein', 'Wesley Clark', and Montgomery.

[Alouette]

Joshua. Gideon.

[NeoCaveman]

Mine are Genghis Khan,

Isn't that Jenjis Khan?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great and King David of the Jews.

[radicalamericannationalist]

Southerners will hate me for this but "Uncle Billy" Sherman has to be on the list.

[Godebert]

Some excellent nominations. The only one I'm suprised not to see after almost 200 posts is Robert the Bruce. He was a brilliant tactician of guerilla warfare and his defeat of Edward II in 1314 at Bannockburn was almost a miracle.

Scots wha hae with Wallace bled
Scots wham Bruce has aften led
Welcome to your gory bed
Or to victorie.

[Malleus Dei]

Puller, Patton, Sherman, Forrest, Wellington, Epaminondas.

[AndrewC]

Rowan Atkinson(aka Black Adder)

[CondiArmy]

I would have to say Shaka Zulu. He designed a new weapon for his troops (the "i-klwas"), instilled modern style discipline, and used completely different tactics in each of his major battles. Although he died before the Zulu Wars against the British, he had built an army which was able to inflict the worst single defeat against colonial Britain (Battle at Isandlwana), while using basically iron age weapons.

[Conan the Librarian]

Depends on the level of operations. Do you mean strategic, operational, tactical or squad.

Strategic: Lee, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Guderian, Tamberlane, G. Washington.

Operational: Stonewall Jackson, Grant, Longstreet, Meade, Rommel, Wellington, Alexander T. G., Sherman, Alexis Commenus, Patton, Zukov(the Russian General) Joe Johnston, Beuregard. Gandalf

Tactical: Early, Handcock, Cleburne, Gustav Adolphos, Nappy's Marshals MacDonald, Ney, and Murat, Stuart, Forrest, Wheeler, Sheridan, G. Washington, Hood.

Squad Level, General Han Solo, Sgt Stryker, Lt. Stahler(Squad Leader people will know) Rommel (read his book).

Ok thats my opinion. There are too many to narrow down any further.

[harrowup]

Admiral Horatio Hornblower and John Wayne.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Lest we forget...Pancho Villa, the first to attack the Continental United States and get away with it. Also, Hernan Cortez and his brilliant tactical moves against overwhelming odds. And, talking about sheer courage, Cortez and his men had just been driven from Tenochtitlan and were facing certain death. As they sat there surrounded by the Aztec army which had driven them from the city, Cortez by himself jumped up and mounted his horse, rode through the enemy lines and killed the Aztec commander. The Aztecs fled, leaving Cortez and his remaining men to survive, lick their wounds, regroup and return some five months later to take the city.

[snowsislander]

Chaka.

[FreedomSurge]

Wellington

Nathan Bradford Forrest

[Arkinsaw]

Jackson, Grant, Lee, Forrest, Alexander, Scott, Rommel, Napoleon, Scipio Africanus, Duke of Wellington, Hannibal

[TFMcGuire]

Don't leave out Irwin Rommel who was not only a brilliant tactical commander but uncommonly courageous and a gentleman as well.

Certainly Patton and Thomas Jackson. And yes, God, the most able of all!:)

Certainly I am not an authority. But these stand out as extremely able commanders in my reading.

A few of the Indian leaders were also tacticians--Oceola, Chief Joseph, Geronimo?

[kennedy]

Patton.

[McCloud-Strife]

Well since someone already stirred the Southerners, I suppose Adding Sherman to the list along with, Hannibal, Patton, Sun Tzu, Yamamoto, Cornwallace, and Caeser cannot do any harm.