Is there really any debate on this? It's pretty hard to beat Cadorna in the level and scale of incompetence.
This week on the blog! I defend my pick for Luigi Cadorna as the worst general of WWI. Though I admit, it is hard to roast Cadorna any harder than Boroević did - but I'm sure I can make up for it by doing the exact same thing 10 more times.https://acoup.blog/2021/10/08/collections-luigi-cadorna-was-the-worst/ …
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He was just really good at following advice, isn't the saying: "If you don't succeed try try try try try try try try try try again?"
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I remember Cardona from the Youtube series that covered the war 100 years later in "The Great War". Whenever they mentioned his name or von Hötzendorf's, you knew it was going to be facepalm time.
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Indeed! That was a fantastic YouTube series.
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Connected or not, how does he last as long as he does?
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There is an attempt to remove him from command by then-Minister of War Vittorio Zupelli fairly early on (in 1916), but it fails and he's able to force Zupelli out of the government.
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There are many World War One generals that deserve criticism, but Cadorna alone was actively ruinous. There's several men who earned the title The Stopable Forve or The Moveable Object, but Luigi Cadorna became a synonym for Disaster and was a terror mostly to his own Army.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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It feels like you have to do a "Who was the best WWI general?" now.
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Trickier proposition; there are a fair number of candidates. It's also difficult because many of them made unfortunate post-war decisions, which ought not factor in, but do for many people. In the event, probably I'd go w/ Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck? But a tough call.
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