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I admit it, I don't know a single general/commander from World War 1. From Any side. And I've decided to make a list so I know some more about the subject. Since I don't need to know EVERY general, I just kinda want the more populalar. In example, Erich Von Manstein is more popular than the general of a supply division. Unless they launched nukes at Stalingrad or something, which obviously didn't hapen. So... If you're willing to post a general. Just post the name of a general, the country they're from, and what front they were on.
I'll be doing some reasearch of my own and post some.
I've already posted a few.
France:
- Joseph Joffre, Western Front
- Henri-Philippe Petain, Western Front
Germany:
- Paul von Hindenburg, Eastern Front
- Erich Ludendorff, Western Front
- Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, African Front
Austria-Hungary:
- Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, Eastern Front
United Kingdom:
- Sir John Denton Pinkston (Sir John French), Western Front
Russia:
- Paul von Rennenkampf, Eastern Front
Serbia:
- Radomir Putnik (Vojvoda Putnik), Balkan Front
Ottoman Empire:
- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Caucasus Front
United States:
- John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, Western Front
Italy:
- Luigi Cadorna, Italian Front
Canada:
- Sir Arthur William Currie, Western Front
Other:
- ...
Another important one for Germany was Erich Ludendorff. He actually made tactics what succeeded against static trench warfare and wasn't using outdated tactics like practically everyone else. Still had too many casualties to win though but at least it was a change for the Western Front seeing as how Operation Michaels failure led to the end of the war. He also used elastic defence which worked well on the Western Front. It's also impressive at the beginning of the war he was alternating commanding on the Western front and Eastern front.
On the topic of WW1 though generals they were all practically shit. Mass artillery bombardment followed by men marching in formation to their deaths. As if the Generals on the Western front didn't understand that THIS DIDN'T WORK after a couple of months and instead lasted 4 years. All the while the Russians were perfecting human wave tactics for WW2
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ian241289 said
Another important one for Germany was Erich Ludendorff. He actually made tactics what succeeded against static trench warfare and wasn't using outdated tactics like practically everyone else. Still had too many casualties to win though but at least it was a change for the Western Front seeing as how Operation Michaels failure led to the end of the war. He also used elastic defence which worked well on the Western Front. It's also impressive at the beginning of the war he was alternating commanding on the Western front and Eastern front.
On the topic of WW1 though generals they were all practically shit. Mass artillery bombardment followed by men marching in formation to their deaths. As if the Generals on the Western front didn't understand that THIS DIDN'T WORK after a couple of months and instead lasted 4 years. All the while the Russians were perfecting human wave tactics for WW2
Yes, but they still kept on charging. Ya'know what they say, "Don't fix what 'aint broke." I'm guessing the commanders were basicly like, "Jolly good work mates, charge them again!" even though he just lost 8,000 men due to 5 entrenched German machineguns, which in WWI was VERY possible.
TehBoss said
ian241289 said
Another important one for Germany was Erich Ludendorff. He actually made tactics what succeeded against static trench warfare and wasn't using outdated tactics like practically everyone else. Still had too many casualties to win though but at least it was a change for the Western Front seeing as how Operation Michaels failure led to the end of the war. He also used elastic defence which worked well on the Western Front. It's also impressive at the beginning of the war he was alternating commanding on the Western front and Eastern front.
On the topic of WW1 though generals they were all practically shit. Mass artillery bombardment followed by men marching in formation to their deaths. As if the Generals on the Western front didn't understand that THIS DIDN'T WORK after a couple of months and instead lasted 4 years. All the while the Russians were perfecting human wave tactics for WW2
Yes, but they still kept on charging. Ya'know what they say, "Don't fix what 'aint broke." I'm guessing the commanders were basicly like, "Jolly good work mates, charge them again!" even though he just lost 8,000 men due to 5 entrenched German machineguns, which in WWI was VERY possible.
The men were probably so bored they wanted to charge just to do something xD. You had too anyway or you would get shot. You just couldn't win
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Henri-Philippe Petain is another.
Ferdinand Foch played a large part.
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Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
Had an immense guerilla campaign in East Africa against the British and their colonies, Belgium and Portugal during their takeover of German held territories in East Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Emil_von_Lettow-Vorbeck
He was actually a decent general of WW1 :O xD
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Sir Arthur William Currie ww1 Canadian general
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ian241289 said
All the while the Russians were perfecting human wave tactics for WW2
I lol'd
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I believe at one point in WW1 the Russians had 1/10th of their guys actually carry guns and they were told to mostly wait till the guy with the gun dies and pick it up.
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undergeneral said
I believe at one point in WW1 the Russians had 1/10th of their guys actually carry guns and they were told to mostly wait till the guy with the gun dies and pick it up.
As was alot of the early times on the Eastern Front of WW2.
undergeneral said
I believe at one point in WW1 the Russians had 1/10th of their guys actually carry guns and they were told to mostly wait till the guy with the gun dies and pick it up.
Enemy at the Gate: "When the man in front is killed, the man in back picks up the rifle and continues the attack." More like 50%. And each man was allotted one clip of ammo. [Not shown in the movie was the fact that nearly all Russian rifles were also equipped with bayonets for hand-to-hand fighting (because of the high probability that if the soldier got that far, he would be out of ammo).]
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CaptainPatch said
undergeneral said
I believe at one point in WW1 the Russians had 1/10th of their guys actually carry guns and they were told to mostly wait till the guy with the gun dies and pick it up.
Enemy at the Gate: "When the man in front is killed, the man in back picks up the rifle and continues the attack." More like 50%. And each man was allotted one clip of ammo. [Not shown in the movie was the fact that nearly all Russian rifles were also equipped with bayonets for hand-to-hand fighting (because of the high probability that if the soldier got that far, he would be out of ammo).]
That was WW2 when the film was based not WW1 :P
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