I know it's a common question, but I'd like to revisit it and see that /his/ thinks. Who do you consider to be the greatest military mind/general of antiquity? Pic rel are the popular choices of course (I would personally also include Philip II of Macedon).Personally, to me it's Philip and Caesar. Philip for innovation (and had he not been assassinated...huge what if). Caesar for sheer accomplishments and scope of his military career. Fighting and defeating Gauls, Germanics, Egyptians, Pontics, fellow Romans etc. His actual tactics remain impressive, obviously the famous Alesia and Pharsalus.
>>18661536I vote for that one jew at Masada, who dodged mass suicide with the rest and turned coat and lived happily ever after.
Sima Yi
First of all, all 4 are absolutely based.Alexander and Caesar are above the other two, but they have features that don't mean they're strictly (merely?) greatest military minds/generals>Caesar was an impressive and cunning statesman>Alexander truly fought his own wars, he was in the frontlines of battlesI will give it to my least favorite of the four though - Hannibal. He was in Italy, basically enemy territory, without getting support from Carthage, for 16 years. He crushed them in battles. He made proud Romans resort to Fabian strategyIn the end he does lose the war, and I feel bad for the elephants he led to northern Italy to freeze, but purely as a military commander on the battlefield, I'll give it to him
>>18661536>Military strategyHannibal and Philip.>Political strategyCaesar.>Battlefield tacticsHannibal and Pyrrhos.>Operational logistics and organizationHannibal and Pyrrhos.>Personal leadership and combatAlexander.>Military innovation and reformHannibal and Philip.Imagine not including Pyrrhos, whom Hannibal studied a lot and borrowed from.
>>18661932Maybe I should learn more about Pyrrhos. I know he was held in high regard back then, but nowadays most know him as the guy who lost to Rome despite a few costly victories
