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Spruance - while a trendsetter, I wouldn't include him in the list as a leader who had feats of military prowess. I would have included Guderian as a forward thinking founder of doctrine/tactician before Spruance.
Zhukov - now here's a tough one - while some of his end goals were successful, at what cost? He generally managed to sacrifice 5 times the number of his own troops at any given time - I question his costly victories like Stalingrad, Berlin etc. on this premise; that's without even getting into Rzhev, Operation Mars or his command at Totskoye.
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