"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.
Buck Turgidson. I liked him. But he could not stick to the point.
General Jack Ripper on the other hand was bad, bad.
It is? So all those rocks being thrown back and forth between the Grant/Lee/War of Nawthun Aggression fans are just figments of my imagination then? ;)