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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We in the West also do not give due credit to Georgy Zhukov, one of the greatest generals of WWII. And he did with Stalin on his back.
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9. I think this is right. Lee & Rommel comport to a certain aristocratic ideal of military leadership. Giap doesn't https://twitter.com/Patrick_Wyman/status/898318580365762560 …
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It would also explain why the military glory hounds don't fetishize Stalin's marshals in the same way.
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Of course Giap's genius was well recognized in Vietnam. I was living there at time of his death in 2013
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And I believe Giap studied the tactics successfully used in the American Revolution -- New Jersey guerilla war, Greene's Southern campaign.
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Kicking colonialists out of Viet Nam seems like a decent cause.
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No. It took a huge body count to accomplish these victories. His strategic advantage was recognizing that the bodies count didn't matter.
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As did both Grant and Sherman to some extent.
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