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Who was the worst general in American history? -
Who was the worst general in American history?
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Thomas Ricks, writing in Foreign Policy, picks Gen. Douglas MacArthur as the worst general in American history, just ahead of traitor Benedict Arnold.
Ricks, who covered military affairs for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, fingers MacArthur for "being insubordinate to three presidents (Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman) as well as screwing up the Korean War."
He also knocks MacArthur for gassing and suppressing Bonus Marchers in 1932.
I would have picked George McClellan whose timidity in battle cost millions of lives in the Civil War
Who was the worst general in American history?
Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Thomas Ricks, writing in Foreign Policy, picks Gen. Douglas MacArthur as the worst general in American history, just ahead of traitor Benedict Arnold.
Ricks, who covered military affairs for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, fingers MacArthur for "being insubordinate to three presidents (Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman) as well as screwing up the Korean War."
He also knocks MacArthur for gassing and suppressing Bonus Marchers in 1932.
I would have picked George McClellan whose timidity in battle cost millions of lives in the Civil War
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