[Burr5]

Give me Heinz Guderian as the top Nazi General- he was the architect of the Bliztkrieg.

Who was the Reb in the Civil War that was so great with guerilla attacks? Later went on to found the KKK... Had three names (like all the rest of them). Damn.

OK, they're not nice people, but brilliant commanders.

[Commander8]

That would be Nathan Bedford Forrest, though a better guerrila commander would be Bloody Bill Anderson. John Mosby was also a good Confederate guerilla commander, really unorthodox.

[vetvetdoug]

Gudarian and Rommel studied the tactics of Nathan Bedford Forrest and therefore Forrest deserves a place on this list. Forrest did not form the KKK as the liberals and misinformed state, but used the organization to protect the disenfranchised former Confederates until they were allowed to vote again. Forrest ordered the KKK disbanded in 1868 and the KKK as we know it today is an ugly mutation. Forrest was the father of lightening strikes, or blitzkreig, and was a leader that the men respected and followed. Forrest was faithful to his state, his wife, his men, his country and his God unlike some others that wish to vilify him. Forrest always said that he would send no man to battle that he himself would not go. His Great Grandson was the first US General killed in WWII following his great grandfather's creed.

As for Forrest leading bold attacks (not guerilla), read about Brices' Crossroads and one will see the brillance that was lacking in most of all of the Generals of the period. Had Bragg listened to Forrest at Chicamauga, the Union Army of the Tennessee would have been a footnote in history.

[RightOnline]

William Bedford Forrest.

[bandleader]

I think that you refer to J E B Stuart.

[wardaddy]

Forrest did not found the original KKK, though he did join it. He left it too after Union occupation was over.

[drake.m007]

I’m pretty sure that the initial stage of the blitzkrieg was LUDENDORF AND VON HINDENBURG’s Infiltration Tactics towards the end of WWI, after the wars of attrition at Verdun, this was used for limited warfare. Infiltration Tactic’s main target being the enemy’s artillery, the main killer of WWI. It was perfected by HANZ VON SEEKT during the Weimar Republic since the Treaty of Versailles’ restriction of the Riechswehr being only 20,000 and an even smaller officer corps. VON SEEKT developed the blitzkrieg, not Guderian. If you’re looking for the best commander of OKH, don’t insult Generalfeldmarschal Erwin Rommel, the man was the best.

[kalee]

Nathan Bedford Forrest