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Worst Military Leader of all Time

Manach · 2003-06-06 21:24:17

We've had the best and now the rest. Which General/Leader is truely the worst ever to lead men into battle.

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#92 22-12-2003 4:13pm
Capt'n Midnight

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not true - two reasons why carriers were used from the twentieswere, they wern't covered by disarmement treaties and in the case of the US those aircraft vs. battleship demos. Look at the numbers of new battleships and the number of new aircraft carriers built by the "blue water navies" after WWI

Also the bismark was hunted down by carriers - and the battle of jutland would have been very different if that spotter planes report had got through a fact the british well knew. Also most carrier users had specialised aircraft fighters, dive bombers, torpedo bombers, reconnisence aircraft in use before the war so had a fair idea of the potential of it -while there is a little truth to say that the sinking of PoW and Renown(repulse?) was the final death knell of the battleship - it wasn't the first (even then there was supposed to have been a carrier - but they thought they'd get away with land based cover - and once that cover had been lost the ships started steaming out of range since the dangers were know.)

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