Best World War I Commander

Best World War I Commander

  • Philippe Pétain - Battle of Verdun

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg - Battle of Tannenberg

    Votes: 14 9.7%

  • John J. Pershing - Meuse-Argonne Offensive

    Votes: 16 11.1%

  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Gallipoli Campaign

    Votes: 8 5.6%

  • Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck - Battle of Tanga

    Votes: 37 25.7%

  • Aleksei Brusilov - Brusilov Offensive

    Votes: 15 10.4%

  • Douglas Haig- Hundred Days Offensive

    Votes: 18 12.5%

  • Others

    Votes: 33 22.9%
  • Total voters
    144

hasdrubal barca

Best World War I Commander
Naval commanders not included. If I’m missing anyone tell me in comments.

Philippe Pétain - Battle of Verdun
Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg - Battle of Tannenberg
John J. Pershing - Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - Gallipoli Campaign
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck - Battle of Tanga
Aleksei Brusilov - Brusilov Offensive
Douglas Haig- Hundred Days Offensive

Others
Arthur Currie
John Monash
T. E. Lawrence
Erich von Falkenhayn
Edmund Allenby
Ferdinand Foch
Józef Piłsudski
 

AdA

Mackensen for is exploits in the eastern front.
Plummer was the one I would rather serve under.
 

Garrison

Donor
The battle of Tannenberg should be credited to Max Hoffman; and given the state of the Russian armies and their refusal to co-operate it was nigh on impossible for the Germans to lose.
 
Nassirisimo

Nassirisimo

I'll go with Brusilov. A successful offensive against the German/Austro-Hungarian armies that had spent most of the previous year beating the Russians quite severely. The offensive included a successful surprise, pioneered new tactics, and mauled the Austro-Hungarian army, which lost a considerable portion of its fighting capability.

Haig/Hundred Days Offensive - While showing a good use of combined arms, and being the decisive campaign of the war, it would have been hard not to beat the Germans at this point. The German army was outgunned, outnumbered, tired and with a home front starving due to the British blockade and the Hindenburg Program.
 

Peg Leg Pom

Stolengood said:
Haig? Seriously? :eek:
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Haig was a far better general than legend gives him credit for. He was quick to grasp new technology, was loved by his men who he cared deeply for and after the war spent the rest of his life trying to help them. His reputation is blackened by two battles that he was forced to prolong long past the time that could be militarily justified to take pressure of the French. First due to the Verdun campaign and second because the French army seethed with mutiny. He is also the victim of Lloyd George's politically inspired smeer campaign after his death. The British Army under his command was perhaps the finest army Britain has ever put in the field, by the end of the war no army in the world could even come close to matching it.

Don't forget that before the Battle of the Somme this supposed donkey was show the first prototype tank and immediately demmanded 1000 of them.
 

BlairWitch749

Banned
Peg Leg Pom said:
Haig was a far better general than legend gives him credit for. He was quick to grasp new technology, was loved by his men who he cared deeply for and after the war spent the rest of his life trying to help them. His reputation is blackened by two battles that he was forced to prolong long past the time that could be militarily justified to take pressure of the French. First due to the Verdun campaign and second because the French army seethed with mutiny. He is also the victim of Lloyd George's politically inspired smeer campaign after his death. The British Army under his command was perhaps the finest army Britain has ever put in the field, by the end of the war no army in the world could even come close to matching it.

Don't forget that before the Battle of the Somme this supposed donkey was show the first prototype tank and immediately demmanded 1000 of them.
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Cared deeply for the men hmmm.


How does that explain the persistence at the Somme and 3rd Ypres and Cambrian when the troops were clearly spent and had lost the initiative in sending them to their deaths when no gain was longer possible. The keep pressure off the French was bs. The attacks at Verdu. Bad already wound down prior to the Somme. And petain was launching his new attacks at verdun shortly after the mutiny. Total self serving British revisionism those two items
 
Ming777

Ming777

Monthly Donor
Arthur Currie and John Monash. The two best allied commanders of that war, both leading the two scariest forces in the war, the Canadian Corps and the ANZAC.
 

King Helü of Wu

Banned
Aleksei Brusilov - Brusilov Offensive
I always admire generals who can lead a technologically backward (medieval) army against a better-organised, better-supplied and more advanced foe.
 

NothingNow

Banned
Voted for Von Lettow-Vorbeck, but Allenby is definitely up there, and Kamio Mitsuomi did pull off perhaps the greatest offensive operation in the history of IJA, so props for that, even if the guy wasn't exactly a brilliant general.
 
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