Throughout History, What General Are You Most Like ?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Yeah, you'd need all the help you could get with a country with virtually unlimited manpower and supplies. Real generals make the best of what they are given.

There is nothing cowardly about a nation that refuses to fight a war with one hand behind its back -- in fact, the Union DID try that in the first couple of years.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Real generals make the best of what they are given.

Hmmm, let me put that another way - its usually the generals on the losing side who have to come up with all the elegant manouevres

[TimeTraveler]

I'd be the guy who relies on a huge, fast industry to begin forming an army once the war begins. I think FDR did something like that, but I'm not sure.

[Saras]

I'm a naval guy. Can't beat me on the land if I sink all your transports, can you?

[Alexander's Horse]

Actually I'm more like the little foreign office guy who hangs out with Allenby in Lawrence of Arabia and sells out the Arabs

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Omar Bradley

I tend to get the job done well without calling much attention to myself, and I always put the people who work for me first.

[Urban Ranger]

Either Mao or Sun Tsu.

[Dinner]

I think of myself as a U.S. Grant. He drank to much, wasn't necessarily the best at what he did, and he rubbed people the wrong way but he was tenacious and kept trying even after he'd failed several times. He succeeded through shear force of will and because he would do things which smarter men would refuse to do, but, in the end that's what made him great.

[Dinner]

Re: Re: Throughout History, What General Are You Most Like ?

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
Though I greatly admire General Lee, I'm a Jackson man all the way.

So you're a religious fanatic who ends up being shot by his own men?

Of course if we're not talking about Stone Wall then you could always be Andy who was an uneducated, filandering, indian hater, who often had prostitutes visit him in the White House.

[molly bloom]

Eugene of Savoy. For obvious reasons.

[Tattila the Hun]

Erwin Rommel.

Can I be Admiral? If so, Admiral Piett.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Eugene of Savoy. For obvious reasons.

What's obvious about Eugene of Savoy?

[Felch]

What's obvious about Eugene of Savoy?

Absolutely everything!

Can you believe Sikander doesn't know what's so obvious about Eugene of Savoy. I mean, do we have to draw him a diagram?

[Dinner]

Obviously he's obscure and unimportant so I immediately see the connection with molly bloom.

(I'm just kidding molly)

[MikeH]

That Captain who's horse bolted during the charge of the light brigade. Not a general but there's no way I'd live to be a general.