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From: victor@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Victor Balaban)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <936@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Sat, 23-Aug-86 21:12:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.936
Posted: Sat Aug 23 21:12:42 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Aug-86 05:07:45 EDT
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Reply-To: victor@batcomputer.UUCP (Victor Balaban)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <-534096606@sysvis> george@sysvis.UUCP writes:
>
>>    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.

What about MacArthur?  I understand that he was supposed to be one of the
greatest ever, even if he did consider himself to be a higher authority
than the president.
-- 


                                           Victor Balaban

Beer.  It's not just for breakfast anymore