Top 5 greatest military generals of all time?

[Beercules]

Alexander the Great. The only man to conquer Afghanistan, the Soviets couldn't do it and we are doing a pretty ****ty job.

[MBE]

Some decent generals here that I didn't know a lot on and it's been fun looking them up some more.

As it hasn't been mentioned I want to give a shout out to the desert fox, Erwin Rommel, maybe not an ATG, but just a notch below and a decent human being considering he was working under the nazis.

[John Barron]

Khan didn't lose it though, he died on top unlike most of the others. I respect Alexander but I think the fact he was born as the ruler and king gave him an unfair advantage over the others. It took ceaser 5 decades to consolidate that kind of power before he could really do what he wanted.

western bias.

any list without genghis as number one is a joke. GK was virtually undefeated and conquered half the world in the span of like 40 years. and he managed do all this without any real military training or an army that was given to him. he was a self-made man.

[MBE]

western bias.

any list without genghis as number one is a joke. GK was virtually undefeated and conquered half the world in the span of like 40 years. and he managed do all this without any real military training or an army that was given to him. he was a self-made man.

Don't worry I agree I started the thread and put genghis at number 1 P4P

[John Barron]

Don't worry I agree I started the thread and put genghis at number 1 P4P

yup, your list is very agreeable. also, i think this guy deserves more than an honorable mention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subutai

[Gojira]

yup, your list is very agreeable. also, i think this guy deserves more than an honorable mention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subutai

Both Jebe and Subutai wouldn't be out of place on anyone's list of greatest generals.

[MBE]

yup, your list is very agreeable. also, i think this guy deserves more than an honorable mention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subutai

I never read anything on him but he sounded like a total badass on the history podcast I listen too. I highly recommend it if you're interested:

Dan Carlins hardcore history: Wrath of the Khans

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/...ry/id173001861

[Bodyshot3]

John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
Robert Clive
Eisenhower
Simon Bolivar
Marshall Petain

Two of these men had overall responsibility for winning the first and second world wars, another decisively won the first European-wide war, one man conquered an entire continent despite not being a professional soldier and another is the father of modern South America. Big achievers all.

[sanjo69]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewa...ancellorsville

[DARKSEID]

Genghis Khan- This man united all of Mongolia and striked fear into the hearts of all his enemies. He conquered and controlled the largest land empire in the history of mankind and hasn't been matched since.

Not even the Jin Dinesty, , or the rest of the chinese empires- he destroyed them all. The richest and most powerful nations not just in asia, but the whole world could not slow him down

He also ****ed the most women.. some of you might even be one of Khan's descendents.