Besides Genghis Khan, who are some mostly/completely self-taught military geniuses?

Besides Genghis Khan, who are some mostly/completely self-taught military geniuses?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Cassivellaunus

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    to be honest he had the best technology for his time, not only that, he had the perfect setting to train those soldiers

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He was the inspo for Paul Atreides.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    me
    30 width combat divisions, 3 inf 1 art, ez

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is that the new meta? Paragays are never going to stop me from building 20 width inf with shovels and horse recon

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >30 width with 3 inf 1 art
      ??????????????????????????????????

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I am. Watch the frick out.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Subutai

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Temujin relied on subutai and jebe you moronic frick

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I am generally when I'm not trapped in psychosis from years of horrific trauma. *Shrug*

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hitler

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just the greatest man to have ever lived

      >Hitler
      >Military genius
      I hope you guys are memeing

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He singlehandedly masterminded the fall of France

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Genghis Khan
    he was literally a noble. Sure he had moments in his life where he was down on his luck but he was taken in by another noble

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He wasn’t educated in the way a settled culture was though

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        homie couldn't even read.

        Literacy is irrelevant, the Young Temujin was a prince raised by Khans- both his father and his future father in law- who taught him warcraft and how to command armies.

        Very much different from peasant commoners who joined bandit groups and armies and learned generalship the hard way: from the ground up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      homie couldn't even read.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Who needs to read when you are a shaman of Tengri?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the lancers need to flank from behind these hills, when the enemy cavalry has been lured away by our horse arches, then we'll cath them of guard
        >but Temujin, you don't know how to read
        I don't think literacy makes that much of a difference, except if you want to read about other generals or military tactics. In Genghis' case, I don't think there were many works about steppe warfare back in his day

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He understood the importance of reading though. He had Chinese officers read the Art of War to Mongol officers and also had them recite military engineering treatises to them so they better understand siege warfare.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Charlemagne didn't know how to read either

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >literally a noble.
      Doesn't that actually prove that noble people really have very good genes?
      I mean, he became an underdog after his father was killed, but he didn't gave up and built an empire the likes of which the world had never seen before.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It’s the opposite it’s that people w “good genes” are capable of rising in social hierarchy. Unlucky offsprings with shitty given genes from nobles would fall from grace in harsh times.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Buyid bros

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Self taught.
    He was the son of a Khan and was later taken by his future Father in Law, Toghril, after his period of capture. He was a prince and would have been taught shit.

    Self Taught would be the likes of peasant bandits, rebels, and soldiers turned generals & warlords like Liu Bang (bandit founder of the Han Dynasty), Zhu Yuanzhang (peasant hobo who founded the Ming Dynasty), or Tokichiro a.k.a Toyotomi Hideyoshi (peasant ashigaru who became regent & unifier of Sengoku Japan).

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Oliver Cromwell?

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There's Confederate general Richard Taylor. Despite being the son of general and president Zachary Taylor, Taylor was not a professional soldier and never attended West Point like so many other high-ranking officers on both sides of the war. He was a political general appointed to his position by Jeff Davis because he was the widower of one of Taylor's older sisters. Despite this, he proved to be one of the best generals of the war, playing pivotal roles in Jackson's Valley Campaign and singlehandedly holding back Union incursions further into Louisiana against poor odds, and nearly taking back New Orleans.

    Taylor was entirely self-mentored in war, everything he knew coming from the large library of military texts in English, French, and Spanish he owned and had read since he young despite never joing the military himself prior to the American Civil War.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Cool, didn't know about him.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >loses a literal who colonial war
      >military genius
      lol

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Temir (Tamerlane) is #2 self taught conquerer

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That's just the fact.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Master Bronstein… I came here to make sure that he was mentioned.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Muhammad

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Me
    I have never been defeated in battle

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Võ Nguyên Giáp Is up there

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Andrew Jackson. Completely self-taught militia commander. He actually was a lawyer by trade, and picked up all of his military knowledge through reading Roman classics, memoirs of the Revolutionary War (which he fought in as a boy), and keeping up with the Napoleonic Wars.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Alexander the Great

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Alexander was bred from when he was a toddler to be a great military leader. Now Philip never expected him to become arguably the greatest general of all time, but Alexander was always going to become a Great Captain.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    tamerlane

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just the greatest man to have ever lived

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He has more victories in battle than Ghenghis and Tamerlane combined
    he is entirely self taught and did not have an experienced officer corps beneath him.
    he is the true king of Lion leading a mob.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He was a racist and his female descendants are getting blacked right now. That alone invalidates him.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Would Subotai count? Yi Sun-sin as well. He had gone through the military academy before a rollercoast of positions due to jealous and intrigue, but before the Japanese invaded he never had any naval experience.

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