I believe by placing a period to gauge the commander will be
unfair to other period and century of commander.What I believe is
that any period and time ,these great leader will have their own
obstacle and shortcoming to overcome.Example,Alexander don't have
the luxury like Rommel to have Panzer which can reach hundreds of
kilometres of enemy lines in a day which doesn't mean alexander
situation face is tougher than Rommel.So is the enemy they face
which encounter this problem ,right? It is how they make full use
of the resources they have at that time to overcome the
enemy.
I firmly believe these great commander have one thing in common is
the ability to lead their men to greater height and the kind of
charisma which different them from other ordinary commander!
Maybe for the commander we support,we can give a brief encounter of
their greatest achievement on battlefield to let the reader
judge!
For me ,I believe rommel greatest victory is at Tobruk.Here is a
brief description of Rommel in action
On November 18th, British started
their offensive codenamed "Crusader". British attacked at the
Halfaya Pass to relieve the encircled city of Tobruk. After British
attacks on November 22nd and 23rd were stopped, Rommel
counterattacked and drove into the British rear, relieving Axis
forces at the Halfaya Pass. At the same time, British reached the
vicinity of Tobruk and on November 29th, broke through to Tobruk.
By December 7th, Afrika Korps was forced to withdraw across
Cyrenaica and on January 6th reached El Agheila in Libya. From
January 2nd to 17th, Axis forces were defeated at Halfaya Pass,
Bardia and Sollum. In mid January, Erwin Rommel consolidated his
forces and positions and decided to launch a new offensive when his
force would be properly supplied and equipped.
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"The Desert Fox in action"
Rommel ordered to attach bundles of wood and bushes on long ropes
to all the supplytrucks and some Italian light tanks. The Italian
light tanks drove in thefirst line, one after the other, behind
them all the supply trucks. The attached bundles of wood and bushes
made an immense clouds of dust. For the British, it looked like the
real full-scale attack. They not only withdraw, but turned their
delaying forces in the wrong direction. At the same time, Rommel
attacked from the otherdirection with his German Panzer Division.
The British were completely outwitted and defeated
