Who's Your Favorite Historical Figure?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The organizational skills of FDR in getting the US thru WWII are frankly amazing.  And when FDR knew he didn't know something, he had no trouble delegating.  And the genius of that was, he delegated to the right people.

Now, historically, the US has a certain technique for fighting wars that rise to a certain threshold of aggravation, and that playbook isn't that hard conceptually to understand, but realize, there are a million details to it.

Oh, that technique for winning?


Throw resources at the problem till it goes away.  Worked just fine for the north in the Civil War, and it worked really, really well in WWII.

I once wrote a paper comparing/contrasting FDR's management style with Hitler's. It ... disturbed ... my prof.