He was far too afraid of the Soviets capturing him - or his corpse - for that.Have Hitler decide to fight on the front to martyr himself?
Have Hitler decide to fight on the front to martyr himself?
Well, the Soviets came really close to taking him when he was inspecting troops at the front in 1943, so there's that.He was far too afraid of the Soviets capturing him - or his corpse - for that.
ISIS was like a mafia so you are right probably not a true stateHussein was captured while hiding, and hung after a dubious trial. I don't think that counts.
Omar died of illness in obscure circumstances, so I don't think that counts either.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up by suicide vest in the middle of a special forces raid targeting him, so his death could count. The Islamic State was kind of a bullshit country though, so I don't know if he would count as a head of state.
Alija Izetbegović was the President.Leader of Bosnian Muslims ? In Sarajevo
Forget his name
During the run-up to D-Day, Churchill started insisting that he'd go along to watch the landings from one of the warships involved. He was only dissuaded from this when George VI said that if that would be safe enough for the PM to do then it should be safe enough for the monarch as well and he'd accompany Churchill. It's probable that this was a bluff, to get Churchill to back down, but if that had been a serious intention on George's part instead then potentially we could have lost both of them in the same incident.Which is a very emotive way of saying that given the scale of modern wars in terms of the size of the battlefields and the sheer complexity of running them that leaders need to be at some central point with good communications and far enough back so the enemy can't easily take them out. Also modern armies tend to be made up of professional soldiers. The days when some king could ride at the head of their armies and see the whole of the battlefield are long over and the idea of having Lloyd-George or Churchill out in the front lines is more than faintly absurd.
Churchill literally almost got blown up by German artillery because he crossed the Rhine River in 1945 when fighting was still going on.During the run-up to D-Day, Churchill started insisting that he'd go along to watch the landings from one of the warships involved. He was only dissuaded from this when George VI said that if that would be safe enough for the PM to do then it should be safe enough for the monarch as well and he'd accompany Churchill. It's probable that this was a bluff, to get Churchill to back down, but if that had been a serious intention on George's part instead then potentially we could have lost both of them in the same incident.
(N.B. In his younger years, George had served in the Royal Navy: He was at Jutland, as a Midshipman, commanding -- IIRC -- one of the turrets on Jellicoe's flagship.)