Pick three favorite officers from history, and say why you picked them.

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I also liked that he was in on the plot to kill Hitler and overthrow the Nazis.

You wouldn't like what was planned to come after them - military government, large reconstruction of aristocracy.

[Saras]

Originally posted by Ecthy
You wouldn't like what was planned to come after them - military government, large reconstruction of aristocracy.

Beats wholesale genocide of unseen scale and incompetent meddling in operational military affairs by uneducated bullies, no?

[Ecthy]

That's besides the point. The love smiley is inappropriate for a fasicst coup against national socialists.

As we say in German, they were going to drive out the devil with the beelzebub.

[Ecthy]

This resistance was partly based in the military. You know what the Wehrmacht was doing on the Eastern front? They were going to seek peace with the west (they had no idea how, probably would have had the same amount of success as Himmler later on - nada). But they were also going to continue fighting in the East.

[Proteus_MST]

After all what I hear Rommel didn´t even even actively participate in the plot.

One of his aides informed him of the plot and he didn´t inform Hitler or turn the aide over to the GeStaPo, but aside from this he didn´t do anything which could have helped the plot to succeed and was absolutely passive.
It was just some streak of misfortune, that after the plot said aide (and another officer) were tortured and accused Rommel of participating in the plot (leading to Hitler forcing him to commit suicide)

[VetLegion]

General Butt Naked ranks pretty high in my opinion

http://www.exile.ru/2003-June-12/war_nerd.html

General Butt Naked was like the Patton of these guys, the Robert E. Lee of Liberia. Instead of wearing wigs and high heels like most Liberian "army" kids, he started a wild new fashion: he just didn't wear anything at all. Here's the item, just the way the reader sent it:

"Liberia: Joshua Blahyi - formerly known as General Butt Naked and leader of the Butt Naked Battalion in Liberia's recent civil war - says that he now regrets the drunken murderous rampages he led his troops on, and says that he was a 'slave to Satan.' Speaking to the press from his new Soul-Winning Evangelical Ministry in Monrovia, General Butt Naked told reporters that at the age of 11 he had a telephone call from the Devil who demanded nudity on the battlefield, acts of indecency and regular human sacrifices to ensure his protection. 'So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying dainty purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk and homicidal. We killed hundreds of people -- so many I lost count. But in June last year God telephoned me and told me that I was not the hero I considered myself to be, so I stopped and became a preacher.'"

[BeBMan]

Instead of wearing wigs and high heels like most Liberian "army" kids, he started a wild new fashion: he just didn't wear anything at all.

[VetLegion]

It's no joke

They really believe in that stuff, though I think it's not hard to believe it while you're drugged, as many seem to be.

[BeBMan]

It's still funny, if it weren't about the rest of the story

[Ecthy]

Proteus, who were those aide and officer?

[DAVOUT]

DAVOUT (of course …) : never defeated in the field during the twenty years where he had commanding jobs, in a time and for a nation engulfed in a turmoil of wars.

FOCH : Demonstrated an admirable sang-froid in recognising that the assaults for break-through were condemned to failure due to the multiple defence lines; and he organised a new tactic based on assaults with the objective to take the first line only, which was feasible and much less costly.
He said, after the war, that his experience of a coalition caused his admiration for Napoleon to decline abruptly.

LECLERC : After having stormed an italian fort at Koufra (Lybia), he made the oath, with his 400 warriors, to continue the fight until the flag is on the Strasbourg cathedral. He did it.

[Aabraxan]

I just can't believe that nobody has mentioned the obvious:

Colonel Sanders

Colonel Mustard

(Sorry, I just couldn't pass it up).

[BeBMan]

Or Major Major.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by DAVOUT
LECLERC : After having stormed an italian fort at Koufra (Lybia), he made the oath, with his 400 warriors, to continue the fight until the flag is on the Strasbourg cathedral. He did it.

Pssst. It is I, LeClerc!

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Pssst. It is I, LeClerc!

You are right; it was an assumed name used for the security of his family left in France. His official name was Philippe de Hautecloque.