1. This is tangential, but I'm always puzzled by the amount of credit people are willing to give to loser generals like Lee & Rommel.
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One can be a tactical genius and still lose a war because the grand strategy is deployed by others.
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Lee benefited from able lieutenants and inept federal opponents. Rommel was certainly capable early in North Africa.
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Rommel did a fair bit of winning before he did was losing. But the value a General is winning the war
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also, when you put aside the reason for killing, it just becomes murder.
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3. Then response is "sure, they lost, but circumstances against them. They did best with what they had." if so, they shouldn't have fought
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4. In war, as everywhere, ends & means have to be aligned. If you don't think you can win a war, you shouldn't fight it.
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But this is the intellectual and moral slight of hand behind so much evil. Ignore the why or the who and just worship "valor"/suffering
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Rommel clever and vague connections to Operation Valkyrie; Lee spoke against bearing grudges post war; neither noted for atrocities.
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Lee's troops enslaved blacks, Rommel's troops captured Jews & sent them to death camps.
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Like Rob Stark they won battles but lost the war which is all that counts
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