Most overrated WW2 commander

[Admiral Yi]

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.

Interdiction of oil supplies from the Dutch East Indies to the home islands.

[Razgovory]

Couldn't they find a different place to interdict from then New  Guinea?  I mean, there's nothing fucking there, and it's kind of of out of the way.

[Admiral Yi]

Couldn't they find a different place to interdict from then New  Guinea?  I mean, there's nothing fucking there, and it's kind of of out of the way.

They didn't interdict them from New Guinea.  They went through New Guinea first to get to the Phillipines.

[Ed Anger]

Mac, Monty, and almost every Japanese commander in WWII (Let's make a giant elaborate plan!).

[Warspite]

Mac, Monty, and almost every Japanese commander in WWII (Let's make a giant elaborate plan!).

Hmm, needs more "LOL MONTY'S STILL IN CAEN".

Disappointing, Ed, disappointing.

[Ed Anger]

Mac, Monty, and almost every Japanese commander in WWII (Let's make a giant elaborate plan!).

Hmm, needs more "LOL MONTY'S STILL IN CAEN".

Disappointing, Ed, disappointing.

Monty is still whining to get a B-17 to fly around in.

Happy?

[11B4V]

Mac, Monty, and almost every Japanese commander in WWII (Let's make a giant elaborate plan!).

Market-Garden

[Siege]

Graziani.

Italo Balbo 

Paolo Rossi.

Marcello Mastroniani.

[Zoupa]

I don't get the Monty hate. Dude was the only one following a reasonable plan to get to Berlin and saving northern Europe from the Russkies, instead of retarded yankee ideas about a southern redoubt 

[Razgovory]

I don't get the Monty hate. Dude was the only one following a reasonable plan to get to Berlin and saving northern Europe from the Russkies, instead of retarded yankee ideas about a southern redoubt 

There was no attempt "to save northern Europe form the Russkies".  The lines had already been drawn.  Monty's plan was a bad idea and it was poorly executed.  His progress on Caen is heavily criticized because of the vast gulf between what he said he could do and what he actually did.

[The Brain]

I don't get the Monty hate. Dude was the only one following a reasonable plan to get to Berlin and saving northern Europe from the Russkies, instead of retarded yankee ideas about a southern redoubt 

He was gay.

[Barrister]

Well, I tried to have at least one from every major combatant. Though I couldn't find any Italian to put there.

Canada?

[Razgovory]

Well, I tried to have at least one from every major combatant. Though I couldn't find any Italian to put there.

Canada?

I think you missed this word.  There wasn't a Slovak commander on the list either.

[Threviel]

Well, I tried to have at least one from every major combatant. Though I couldn't find any Italian to put there.

Canada?

I think you missed this word.  There wasn't a Slovak commander on the list either.

What Raz said.

[Zanza]

The lines had already been drawn.

Drawing lines without creating facts on the ground would hardly have convinced Stalin to uphold his end of the bargain.