The Greatest U.S. General

[Rodri]

Perhaps you need to go back and read the history of the Korean conflict.
MacArthur made one of the worst strategic blunders in history by insisting on pushing on to the Yalu River, which was the border of both China and the U.S.S.R., even though intelligence was that China would intervene.

Undetected by Western Intelligence, hundreds of thousands of Chinese "volunteers" began infiltrating by night, with great skill, across the Yalu. As the UN forces moved north from Pyongyang, MacArthur's commander, General Walker, found himself heading with a mixed force of 100,000 men into rugged, wintry country, and covering a front several times wider than the much more defensible 38th parallel.

Inevitably, the force became divided. On November 25, as Walker was preparing his final blow, the Chinese struck with devastating force along the Chongchon Valley, with eight armies of thirty divisions, totalling more than 300,000 men, several times the available strength of the UN forces. It was a great ambush.

Walker's right wing crumpled. Swiftly, the line buckled, and MacArthur's troops, in an unparalleled reversal of fortune, reeled back to the 38th parallel. For the US forces caught up in the "bug-out" in appalling winter conditions, it was one of the worst defeats in American history.

There seems to be a common theme with most of the popular Generals and that is that they were shameless and enthusiastic self promoters.

Abracax I dispute your assertion that Sitting Bull and Geronimo were not military leaders. To their people, that is exactly what they were and even the U.S. government called their fights againt the Sioux and Apache as wars.