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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5. Rommel & other Wehrmacht generals knew from start Hitler's wars un-winnable but went along. That's opposite of good military leadership
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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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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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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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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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Come on, Jeet. Giap is venerated. And Grant was a complete plebe who's seen as one of the greatest US generals, if not the greatest.
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There's just so much civil war stuff about the gentlemanly & clever Lee versus the uncouth, killing-machine Grant.
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Though I gather the scholarship on Lee doesn't rate his generalship that highly
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The scholarship doesn't but popular memory does. That's part of what's going on here.
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