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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It would also explain why the military glory hounds don't fetishize Stalin's marshals in the same way.
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Also, Lee and Rommel both right-leaning-but-less-than-their-movement, and in general it seems like right wing gets free legitimacy points.
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10. Plebes who win wars (Zhukov, Sherman, Omar Bradley, Giap) don't get honored as much as aristocrats who lose (Lee & Rommel).
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Unless they get themselves crowned emperor, of course.
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Second place seems to create a mystique, too. Hannibal and Napoleon both came in second place and are fetishized.
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I think that's a big part of it. Yamamoto gets a bit of this, too. And Prince Rupert.
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It might be a side effect of history written by the winners. Our victory is greater when we defeat a mighty foe.
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Ah, Grand Illusion
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The wiki has a decent entry on the Rommel Myth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rommel_myth …
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