Who do you think were the worst 10 officers of each major power in WWII and why? For an added bonus each member of your list gets a fatal heart attack/is forced to retire due to medical reasons on August 31st,1939.
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When planning a screw you need to know who to put where to get an ineffective kakistocracy.What does this have to do with alternate history?
There was a Lord of the Admiralty who slept through all the meetings.
was wanting reliable equipment which considering how much ordnance screwed up tank R@D midwar meant that the US didn't have a good counter to late war German heavy armor other than chucking enough shells at the things or flanking them
Bradley definitely doesn't belong on this list. He was one of the better Allied Generals. I disagree with King as well, but I can definitely see the arguments for including him. I'd say he's borderline for this.Hah! MacArthur that's an easy #1
Brereton
Sutherland all for Philippines
Fredendall North Africa
McNair
Adm King, Atlantic
Bradley, indecisive in France
MacKelvie at Normandy
Rupertus at Peleliu
Hodges - Bulge, and afterwards.
Short Pearl Harbor, for worrying about sabotage more than being combat effective
Special mention must go to a certain Australian General who ran away from Singapore....Hah! MacArthur that's an easy #1
Brereton
Sutherland all for Philippines
Fredendall North Africa
McNair
Adm King, Atlantic
Bradley, indecisive in France
MacKelvie at Normandy
Rupertus at Peleliu
Hodges - Bulge, and afterwards.
Short Pearl Harbor, for worrying about sabotage more than being combat effective
the worst 10 officers of each major power in WWII and why?
Personally, I'd have Percival and MacArthur ranked as 1 and 1A, followed by Brereton, Monty, William Blandy, Short and others
Special mention must go to a certain Australian General who ran away from Singapore....
I'd argue that Hitler, Mussolini, and Churchill belong on the list because of how much they micromanaged.
Definitely Goering.
Lord Beaverbrook was not an officer. Also he was instrumental in running war production during the BoB...Clark in Italy. Lord Beaverbrook. There was a Lord of the Admiralty who slept through all the meetings.
To be fair ultimately it was ordnance branch's fault that the better tanks weren't ready in time not McNair's and since McNair didn't survive the war he wasn't around to defend his decisions postwarThat wasn't a mistake. The US was operating on a Transatlantic supply chain and broken down Pershings in depot would be far less useful than functional Shermans. Look at the number of German tanks lost to mechanical faults, the most useful tank is the only tank on the battlefield and because of the reliability of US tanks there was a lot of times when the only tank on the battlefield was a US one.
Reliable Tanks isn't why he is on that list. Almost everyone wants reliable tanks, few were able to deliver as well as the USA.That wasn't a mistake. The US was operating on a Transatlantic supply chain and broken down Pershings in depot would be far less useful than functional Shermans. Look at the number of German tanks lost to mechanical faults, the most useful tank is the only tank on the battlefield and because of the reliability of US tanks there was a lot of times when the only tank on the battlefield was a US one.
At best, he was average. At worst, you got his dithering during the Bulge.Bradley definitely doesn't belong on this list. He was one of the better Allied Generals.