12-17-2003, 01:04 PM
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beauty in the breakdown
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Originally posted by Mr Mephisto
This is a bit of an over exaggeration.
Patton was a good tactician. But he was not, by no stretch of the imagination, one of the greatest military leaders of all time. Such accolades go to the likes of Napoleon, Grant, Shaka, Ho Chi Minh, Zhukov, Alexander the Great, Julius Caeser, Saladin, Hannibal Barca, Publius Cornelius Scipio and George Washington.
He was a great divisional general, but a world class military leader? I think not.
But "good" speech none the less... :-)
Mr Mephisto
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Exactly. He was good at what he did, but there is a reason he was never given more command than he had. He needed someone more sensible to slow him down. Being agressive is good, being rash is not.
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