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Reply With Quotenot really-- TE Lawrence and the Arabian Revolt is overrated in terms of actual impact, while Gordon was in charge of a last stand (a position no good commander should ever be in).
I am not a military man, but shouldn't the list have these men as well?
1) T. E. Lawrence
2 ) Charles George Gordon
not really-- TE Lawrence and the Arabian Revolt is overrated in terms of actual impact, while Gordon was in charge of a last stand (a position no good commander should ever be in).
The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!"
-Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
A good leader of irregular forces, but his contribution to the defeat of the Turkish forces in the Middle East in WW1 was minimal.Originally Posted by indus creed
To be blunt, the man was an idiot. He got Britain dragged into a war it didn't need to get involved in. The British government did its best to stay out of it, but public opinion forced them to attempt to rescue him out of the mess he had got into.2 ) Charles George Gordon
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I had a good friend who served in the Falklands with the Paras', and he confirms the very same. You are correct '9'er, the 2i/c, Ops should have been back at '0' location directing Operations. A complete idiot me thinks.
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