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RE: How would you rank the greatest US generals?
(06-11-2014 03:04 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  
(06-11-2014 02:53 PM)UofM_Tiger Wrote:  Shouldn't overlook Grant. Wasn't the greatest tactician, but he understood better than any other union general what it was going to take to beat the Confederacy, with the possible exception of Sherman.

Grant was a "good" general in the exact same way Stalin way a "good" general. He knew he had more resources than his foe and feed men into the meat grinder. I suppose knowing you can win with the numbers you have if you're willing to kill as many of your own men as it takes is a type of "good" generalship.

None of other generals that had been in charge prior to Grant realized that. Just like Patton in WWII Grant knew that the quickest way to win and get the war over with was to relentlessly attack. Don't give your enemy time to regroup.
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