America's Worst Generals, Ctd.
A US Marine playing the role of US General Douglas MacArthur (C) and other Marines playing the roles of US and South Korean generals participate in the 60th Incheon Landing Operations commemoration ceremony near Incheon, west of Seoul on September 15, 2010. (YANG HOI-SUNG/AFP/Getty Images)
Here are your nominations to date for the list of worst generals in US history. Any more? Remember, the criterion is military incompetence: Benedict Arnold and Robert E. Lee were bad Americans, but not bad generals.
Horatio Gates
James Wilkinson
William Hull
Ambrose Burnside
George McClellan
John Pope
Braxton Bragg
John Bell Hood
Lloyd Fredenhall
John Lucas
Douglas MacArthur
William Westmoreland
Tommy Franks
About the Author
David Frum
David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.
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