Best Military leader of WWII?

[Brutuskend]

Who would you pick, and why?

 

[Feldenak]

Eisenhower

He kept the enormous egos of Monty and Patton somewhat in check obviously had the strategic know-how to win the ETO.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Patton

 

[Cashmoney995]

I like IKE!

 

[Actaeon]

MacArthur...

Pacific ownage. Owned up Japan in WW2, and then he nearly took out North Korea during the Korean War... that is until Truman took him out.

The European front had too many generals around to really give credit to a specific individual general.

 

[Rastus]

Patton
Rommel

 

[TallBill]

IKE.


Macarthur wanted to nuke North Korea, but this thread isn't about post WWII leadership.

 

[TerryMathews]

Yamamoto - assuming that he planned the attack at the insistance of the Emperor (General consensus AFAIK is that Yamamoto though attacking America was a bad idea) he planned an excellent strike. Very nearly a crippling blow.

Don't misunderstand me - attacking us was a colossal blunder. Had Japan not attacked, odds are that we would not have entered the war in time to save most of Europe. That being said, if the decision to attack were made by the Emperor, Yamamoto carried out his order to the best of his ability; the true mark of any great soldier.

 

[SuperTool]

Zhukov

 

[mindwreck]

Rommel