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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 18:20:00 EDT
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Nf-From: sysvis.UUCP!george    Aug 19 17:20:00 1986


>    For good or for bad there have not been any great generals in the last
> hundred years or so (there were some brilliant ones like Rommel, but not
> of the kind of the truly great ones). 

"Great" needs some definition in scope of campaign and performance therein.
Taking this into account, George S. Patton was, without a doubt, a GREAT one.
Rommel lacked the "eye of quality" even though he was normally precise.  Oh,
and did you forget Sun Tzu?  He wrote the book.