who is the greatest miltary strategist of all time?

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and why?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

ans = not theoden king of rohan, since he is possibly the worst

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

myself when I play Risk.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

nyeh... strategy rather than tactics... er, tough one.... er...

I dunno, Alexander, because he conquered a huge empire in a few years and it might even have held together for ten minutes if he didn't die when he did.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Rhodes, proven at the seige of Kimberly

― baggy (baggy), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Scipio Africanus victor of the Second Punic War over Hannibal.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone who didn't write the script of 'Starship Troopers'

― dave q, Tuesday, 7 January 2003 18:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Theoden = Monty
Aragorn = Eisenhower
Gimli = Patton
Legolas = Jimmy Doolittle
Gandalf = George Marshall
Merry & Pippin = Churchill & Roosevelt
Gollum = Stalin

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

So who was Frodo, then? Yossarian?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Kutuzov. For making the most of the home turf advantage and managing to lose the battle and win the war, despite the Tsar. Of course, that's just in terms of military strategy; fleeing in terror and leaving a major metropolitan area to Napoleon could hardly have been considered a good PR move.

― , Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Frodo=American G.I.'s
Sam=British G.I.'s
Sarumon=Hitler
Wilma=Mussolini

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Wilma?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Mao

― Dave Fischer, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Genghis Khan - because his name is so cool!

― toraneko (toraneko), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Sun Tzu!

and Crazy Ivan!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't the Goth dude's name Wilma?

Anyhow, the correct answer to this question is Hank Stram.

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:19 (twenty-three years ago)

By the way, I haven't read the books and had to get a friend to tell me what happens in the next one (my response: so it is like on South Park!)

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Grima. For a second there I thought the Flintstones had taken up the quest...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:31 (twenty-three years ago)

'Frodo=American G.I.'s
Sam=British G.I.'s
Sarumon=Hitler'

That's such an american answer, America is NOT Frodo because Frodo didn't come halfway through when he was personally attacked. He was there at the beginning of th quest. sorta.

― nellskies (minna), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Helm's Deep almost = The Battle of Britain but not quite

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

But Frodo does come in halfway through! (what else was that eight hour prologue there for?)

Does Liv Tyler = Ike's secretary, and Theoden's neice = Mamie Eisenhower?

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

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