"THE MOST UNDERRATED MILITARY STRATEGIST?" Topic

I nominate Genghis Khan as the most underrated military strategist.

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Benedict Arnold.
Hero of Quebec, Valcour Island, Saratoga. Thrown to the political wolves for political necessity.

My nominations:

General Sir Arthur William Currie GCMG, KCB

General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, GBE, KCB, DSO, MC

Admiral Yi Sun-shin

Count Generalissimo Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov

Simon de Montfort who won the "Albigeois crusade" in South France, early 13th century.
Deserve to be known as one of the best middle age generals.

Tilly. Went unbeaten for decades before coming across Gustavus Adolphus in his old age.

Benedict Arnold had no friends in Congress and was passed over. But he had the weakness of character to turn traitor over this.

He also led the attack on Fort Griswold that saw his former neighbors put to the sword.

Benedict Arnold had no friends in Congress and was passed over. But he had the weakness of character to turn traitor over this.

And a socially ambitious (and Tory) wife.

Washington.

Zenobia

Arnold has to be the most over rated general of all time.

Stalin, built a human wall and defeated the Germans when they thought they were unstoppable.

Arnold:-

1) failed to capture Quebec after exhausting a contingent of men marching through a wilderness for no appreciable gain;

2) threw away the Lake Champlain fleet in a pointless action that delayed the British for a mere 24 hours (the real value was its existence which forced the British to spend three months building a comparable force); and

3) did nothing of any real worth in terms of generalship at the First Saratoga battle and in the Second repeatedly threw troops at the Balcarres Redoubt with great loss, then got himself injured un-necessarily, storming the Breymann Redoubt.

He also wasn't a strategist.

Eric von Manstien of the German Wehrmacht in WW2.

Field Marshal Sir William Slim

Hannibal. Even though Alexander is my personal fave.

And Manstein gets best for WW2