I thought about mentioning Zhukov, but I don't know if you can even be a great general when your motivation is a murderous tyrant like Stalin.
Hey, they might have been bastards but it doesn't make them weak fighters.
Arioch7 out.
"but I don't know if you can even be a great general when your motivation is a murderous tyrant like Stalin."
Oh of course you can be, look at Rommel, how many times he is mentioned here. This is a non-partisan thread, who is a great warrior, not who has a great cause.
A wee bit of Tennyson, shall we:
Theirs was not to question why
Theirs was just to do or die
I am sorry, but it is ever thus.