Hunter-Weston... called a rank amateur by Haig of all people. Yeah; he qualifies.

Did you know he was the only serving M.P. to simultaneously command an army in the field since the days of Napoleon?

And yes, I agree about Monty. He was extremely competent and occasionally brilliant; I've put him in the same list as McClellan and Custer because one can say the same thing about both of them. He was actually better than either, but then, he did have better intel and a far superior staff.

Wildor: I'm including Johnson only because of the "Commander-in-Chief" nominal rank awarded to the American presidents. No P.M. has ever held similar authority -- and in my opinion, this is a very good thing; political leaders have no business making purely military decisions. In my opinion, he's the worst of our CinCs -- miles beyond Truman or Dubya.