re: Greatest Military leader of all time?

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Strategic? Dwight D. Eisenhower-the persons and problems with which he had to deal in order to manage the combined forces and defeat Germany ere nearly insurmountable.

Tactical? Georgy Zhukov-he almost single-handedly turned the tide of the war in the East during WWII.

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Zhukov was definitely a great general, but when your communist dictator tells you to win at all cost and doesn't care how many people die, it puts an asterisk on his military prowess.

Stalin didn't give a shite about anyone but himself and sent millions of soldiers into certain death just to wear the Germans down. At Stalingrad his generals (under his orders) sent several hundred thousand troops into relentless fire with no gun or just a few rounds of ammo.

Zhukov did what was required and did it well, but I wouldn't consider him a top 5 military leader. He was just the hammer behind a several million man army (knowing that failure would cost him and his family their lives).