Most overrated WW2 commander

[The Minsky Moment]

Are you "PanzerFanBoi123" on some other boards?

Unlikely, assuming that the name doesn't correspond to an economist working in the Keynesian school.
Why, is he a fan of Zhukov as well?

[The Brain]

Are you "PanzerFanBoi123" on some other boards?

Unlikely, assuming that the name doesn't correspond to an economist working in the Keynesian school.
Why, is he a fan of Zhukov as well?

YES

[MadImmortalMan]

I was amused when I saw Monty's tank in the IWM and it had great big letters across the front: F - O - R - D

[Norgy]

Does anyone rate Tito as a military commander?

[derspiess]

After a heavy pondering that lasted 10 seconds, I went with MacArthur.

Does anyone rate MacArther highly?

Seedy.

I think MacArthur is underrated in some circles, such as Languish.

[Razgovory]

Does anyone rate Tito as a military commander?

He led what was the most successful partisan operation of the war, and may have done more good then bad for his people (rare in a communist).  I consider him an impressive figure.

[Razgovory]

After a heavy pondering that lasted 10 seconds, I went with MacArthur.

Does anyone rate MacArther highly?

Seedy.

I think MacArthur is underrated in some circles, such as Languish.

He was probably underrated by the Chinese as well.

[Norgy]

He led what was the most successful partisan operation of the war, and may have done more good then bad for his people (rare in a communist).  I consider him an impressive figure.

As a political figure, he is certainly of a great calibre and value. In managing to avoid the Warszaw Pact, too, but as a field commander, I have no idea what he was like.
The operations were small-scale, and while successful both in carving out a liberated territory and in keeping German forces busy, I don't know how much of it was down to Tito's military leadership. He was the commander of the liberation army, of course, so I guess maybe I was the brains.

[dps]

Voted MacArthur, based just on WWII--the forces in the Philipines getting caught by surprise hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor is pretty inexcusable.  But if you give him credit for Inchon (even if he did overplay his hand after that), then he looks a lot better, and I'd proabably vote for Halsey.  Spruance should have gotten the fifth star, not Halsey.

[The Minsky Moment]

McArthur, Monty, Halsey all have come under very strong criticism to a degree that has entered even the casual histories, and on that basis I would not include them as candidates for most overrated.

[katmai]

Patton clearly.

[Ideologue]

Voted MacArthur, based just on WWII--the forces in the Philipines getting caught by surprise hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor is pretty inexcusable.  But if you give him credit for Inchon (even if he did overplay his hand after that), then he looks a lot better, and I'd proabably vote for Halsey.  Spruance should have gotten the fifth star, not Halsey.

Regarding MacArthur, his performance in Korea I have mixed feelings about (and think he was correct in suggesting the use of nuclear weapons against PRChina), but in retrospect, was there actually any point to anything he did in World War II?

[Zoupa]

Patton, easily.

[Admiral Yi]

Regarding MacArthur, his performance in Korea I have mixed feelings about (and think he was correct in suggesting the use of nuclear weapons against PRChina), but in retrospect, was there actually any point to anything he did in World War II?

I have read at least one work that favorably compared his island-hopping reconquest of New Guinea and surrounding areas to the Navy's drive in the central Pacific.

[Ideologue]

Regarding MacArthur, his performance in Korea I have mixed feelings about (and think he was correct in suggesting the use of nuclear weapons against PRChina), but in retrospect, was there actually any point to anything he did in World War II?

I have read at least one work that favorably compared his island-hopping reconquest of New Guinea and surrounding areas to the Navy's drive in the central Pacific.

I don't mean he did a bad job, but rather am curious if there was a point was to the job itself, in light of the atomic bomb.  I mean, the achievement of the campaign in France, the Low Countries, and western Germany was the preemption of Soviet domination of central as well as eastern Europe.  But the achievement of the Philippines campaign seems far more ambiguous.

This is all hindsight, of course.