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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Almost as if they had other motivations for going along with it than merely proving their tactical brilliance
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Rommel did back the coup against Hitler though.
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This makes no sense. The objectives of the war shifted dramatically after 1940, and in ways that Wehrmacht warned against.
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Moreover, generals don't pick when to go to war. Civilian leaders do. Generals do what they can with what they have.
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Rommel tried to whack Hitler which is more valorous that anything Lee did.
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That's an imprecise statement, for many reasons. By your logic, we should never have fought the American Revolution 1/
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2/ The Germans didn't think they would lose until much later in the war. Indeed, they won massive victories.
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6. Compare the fetishization of Lee & Rommel with the fact that Võ Nguyên Giáp rarely discussed as a great military leader.
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7. Giap defeated the French, the Americans & the Chinese: A European power, a North American power & an Asian power. Without precedent.
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