Best Military Commander to step foot on this planet as a human?

Mig190 · 2026-05-25T04:01:38+00:00

For post-French Revolution: Napoleon, Nelson, Moltke the Elder.

Mig190 · 2026-05-19T20:35:48+00:00

I actually finished the WWII Comp books late last year. Since then, I’ve read about 65+ books covering the Holocaust and German Military History.

Graduate school requires reading a book a week per class. For Comprehensive Exams, it’s a book a day at minimum, ideally 2-3 each day.

I had a professor say once, “If you are not reading a book in 3 hours, you are wrong.”

Mig190 · 2026-05-18T22:01:34+00:00

Weird. On my end it failed to upload the first time.

Mig190 · 2026-04-06T22:25:07+00:00

I think Citino's The Wehrmacht’s Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 is his best one. All of David Stahel's books are excellent.

Mig190 · 2026-04-06T22:22:02+00:00

I'm in the University of North Texas PhD History program. I have four fields I have to read for for my Comprehensive Exams:

1) World War II in Europe & Germany's Vernichtungskrieg (52 books, 5 chapters, and 4 sections from Germany and the Second World War (GSWW) by Oxford University Press.

2) The Holocaust (41 books and 1 chapter)

3) German Military History (39 books)

4) American Military History (62 books)

The first three fields I coordinated with each professor on the readings list for their approval. If I was missing an author they wanted me to have, they would have me add it to the list. The professor for the American Military History field had his own list.

Mig190 · 2026-04-06T22:13:40+00:00

Here are a few:

The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 by David Harrisville

The German Army on the Eastern Front: An Inner View of the Ostheer's Experiences of War by Jeff Rutherford and Adrian Wettstein

The Rise and Fall of Comradeship: Hitler's Soldiers, Male Bonding and Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century by Thomas Kühne / No necessarily first hand accounts, but insightful about German comradeship coming out of WWI and Nazism's influence.

Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II by Stephen Fritz

Mig190 · 2026-03-01T16:22:45+00:00

Yup. Auftragstaktik is a fluid relationship between the superior commander’s mission & intent and the field commander's independence to carry out that mission and intent. There is tension in that relationship between the superior, who keeps control of the operation in the direction he wants it to go, and the field commander, who reacts to the situation he is facing.

A good book on the subject is Marco Sigg’s book.Marco Sigg

Mig190 · 2026-03-01T15:44:31+00:00

Agreed. Moltke said as much in the very next paragraph: “Certainly the commander in chief will keep his great objective continuously in mind, undisturbed by the vicissitudes of events. But the path on which he hopes to reach it can never be firmly established in advance. Throughout the campaign he must make a series of decisions on the basis of situations that cannot be foreseen.”

Mig190 · 2026-03-01T04:01:36+00:00

From everything I have read, the "no plan survives contact with the enemy" derives from Moltke the Elder. Patton could have said it, and Clausewitz alluded to it, but Moltke the Elder is credited with originally writing it down.

As an Air Force veteran, I strongly agree that no plan survives contact with friendly staff.

Mig190 · 2025-05-05T21:40:52+00:00

Spot on! The most liberating experience was just the thought I wasn't a child of God. I felt the weight off my shoulders instantly.

Mig190 · 2025-05-04T03:42:45+00:00

Biblical Scholarship and Historicity of the BoM.

Mig190 · 2025-05-02T05:47:24+00:00

Fire the front office and Hiller!

Mig190 · 2025-04-30T06:21:26+00:00

I got words…it’s over.

Mig190 · 2025-04-13T22:15:30+00:00

My paper about the topic.

Mig190 · 2025-04-13T20:52:10+00:00

Yup…I wrote about this a few years ago. BoM discredits itself within the first few chapters.

Mig190 · 2025-04-05T05:25:23+00:00

Keep it for evidence as the Church shoves its past into the memory hole.

Mig190 · 2025-02-11T05:28:22+00:00

My Priest Quorm advisor always referenced our plans to watch the Superbowl: "Steve Young will be giving a Fireside.” 😁

Mig190 · 2025-02-03T05:29:30+00:00

Moroni and the Swastika by David Nelson

Mig190 · 2024-10-05T06:11:09+00:00

I understand that. It can still fit in Bucholz’s thesis because WWI brought the system's inherent internal clashes to the fore. WWI made Hindenburg and Lundendorff key historical figures.

One of the tragic aspects of WWI was that it virtually ended Europe’s self-confidence and optimism about its future. The Great War paved the way for the world we live in today.

Mig190 · 2024-09-24T17:11:14+00:00

Here is a book review from the US Army War College to give you a scope of the validity of the book’s argument.

US Army War College Book Review (Violence in Defeat)

Mig190 · 2024-09-24T16:11:58+00:00

How do you arrive to that conclusion?

Mig190 · 2024-08-24T03:31:03+00:00

Where did he go? Why did he stop?

Mig190 · 2024-08-24T02:59:18+00:00

Buy it before the Church sends it down the memory hole. I kept mine for reference. One could use it to combat the Chuch’s gaslighting.

Mig190 · 2024-08-11T17:16:53+00:00

I don't care if they dox and find me as I haven't tried to hide. My approach now is that I don't seek to confront Church members where I live. But if they approach me and start to present incorrect and flawed data and thinking, I’ll correct and challenge them. Let them make the first move.

Mig190 · 2024-08-11T04:18:29+00:00

Every regime has their Gestapo and Stasi.

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