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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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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8. If we want to separate out political cause from military leadership, Giap was clearly one of the greatest military leaders in history
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Counterpoint: Hannibal is famous, even though he lost and history is told from the Romans' side.
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How is that a counterpoint? It's the exact same point - praising the losing side for losing a battle they shouldn't have fought.
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Or Touissant L'Ouverture. Defeated the Haitian slaveholders, the British, and the French.
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Rommel didn't do too well when fighting competent generals like Montgomery. Rommel was the golden boy of Nazi propaganda.
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Giap was asked how he celebrated victory in 1975. "I smoked a cigarette"
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Acknowledged or not, the Lee and Rommel worship indicates some level of (even unconscious) sympathy with their cause. Not so with Giap.
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