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List of U.S. military leaders:


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==Revolutionary War==
==Revolutionary War==
 
*[[Benedict Arnold]], traitor
*[[James Clinton]]
*[[Horatio Gates]]
*[[Nathanael Greene]]
*[[Nathanael Greene]]
*[[Alexander Hamilton]], chief of staff to Washington
*[[John Paul Jones]]
*[[John Paul Jones]]
*[[Marquis de Lafayette]]
*[[Charles Lee]]
*[[Benjamin Lincoln]]
*[[Benjamin Lincoln]]
*[[Enoch Poor]]
*[[Baron von Steuben]]
*[[George Washington]]
*[[George Washington]]


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===Union===
===Union===
 
*[[Ambrose Burnside]]
*[[James Garfield]]
*[[David Farragut]], Navy
*[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
*[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
*[[Henry Wager Halleck]]
*[[Henry Wager Halleck]]
*[[George Meade]]
*[[George B. McClellan]]
*[[George B. McClellan]]
*[[Irvin McDowell]]
*[[Irvin McDowell]]
*[[Winfield Scott]]
*[[William Tecumseh Sherman]]  
*[[William Tecumseh Sherman]]  


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*[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]
*[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]
*[[Stonewall Jackson]]
*[[Stonewall Jackson]]
*[[Albert Sidney Johnston]]
*[[Joseph Johnston]]
*[[Robert E. Lee]]
*[[Robert E. Lee]]
*[[James Longstreet]]
*[[J. E. B. Stuart]]
*[[J. E. B. Stuart]]
==Spanish-American War==
==Spanish-American War==
 
*[[George Dewey]], Navy
*[[Theodore Roosevelt]]
*[[Theodore Roosevelt]], Army


==World War I==
==World War I==
*[[Douglas MacArthur]], [[AEF]]
*[[Billy Mitchell]], [[AEF]]
*[[John J. Pershing]], [[AEF]]
*[[William Sims]], Navy


*[[John J. Pershing]]
==World War II==
*[[Henry Arnold]], Air Force, Deputy Chief of Staff of Army
*[[Omar Bradley]], Army, Europe
*[[Simon Bolivar Buckner]], Army, Pacific
*[[Claire Chennault]], Air Force, CBI
*[[Mark Clark]], Army, Italy
*[[Jacob Devers]], Army, Europe
*[[James Doolittle]], Air Force, Europe
*[[Robert Eichelberger]], Army SWPA
*[[Dwight Eisenhower]], Army, Europe
*[[James Forrestal]], Secretary of the Navy
*[[Lloyd Fredendall]], Army, North Africa
*[[Leslie Groves]], Army, Atomic bomb
*[[William Halsey]], Navy, Pacific
*[[George Kenney]] Air Force, SWPA
*[[Ernest J. King]], Navy, [[Chief of Naval Operations]]
*[[William Leahy]], Chief of Staff to the President
*[[Curtis LeMay]], Air Force
*[[Douglas MacArthur]], Army, Southwest Pacific
*[[John S. McCain, Sr.]], Navy, Pacific
*[[Leslie McNair]], Army
*[[George C. Marshall]], Army, Chief of Staff
*[[Chester Nimitz]], Navy, Pacific
*[[George Patton]], Army, Europe
*[[Carl Spaatz]], Air Force, Europe
*[[William Simpson]], Army, Europe
*[[H Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr.]] Army, Iran
*[[H. M. Smith]] Marines, Pacific
*[[Walter Bedell Smith]] Army, Europe
*[[Raymond Spruance]], Navy Pacific
*[[Joseph Warren Stilwell]], Army, CBI
*[[Henry Stimson]], Secretary of War
*[[A.A. Vandegrift]], Marine Corps, Pacific


==World War II===
==Korean War==
 
*[[Ned Almond]]
*[[Henry Arnold]]
*[[Mark Wayne Clark]]
*[[Dwight Eisenhower]]
*[[Douglas MacArthur]]
*[[Douglas MacArthur]]
*[[George Marshall]]
*[[George Patton]]
==Korean War==
*[[Matthew Ridgway]]
*[[Matthew Ridgway]]
*[[O. P. Smith]]
*[[James van Fleet]]
*[[Walton Walker]]


==Vietnam War==
==Vietnam War==
*[[Creighton Abrams]]
*[[Leonard Chapman Jr.]]
*[[William DuPuy]]
*[[Wallace Greene Jr.]]
*[[Paul Harkins]]
*[[Hamilton H. Howze]]
*[[Harold Johnson]]
*[[John McCain Jr.]] admiral and successor to Greene as commander, U.S. Pacific Command
*[[ John McCain|John McCain III]], prisoner of war and 2008 presidential candidate
*[[Theodore Momyer]]
*[[Raymond Peers]]
*[[Ulysses S. Grant Sharp]] commander, U.S. Pacific Command
*[[Lewis Walt]]
*[[William Westmoreland]]
*[[Earle Wheeler]]


*[[William Westmoreland]]
==Gulf War==
*[[Stanley Arthur]]
*[[Walter Boomer]]
*[[Fred Franks]]
*[[Buster Glosson]]
*[[Chuck Horner]]
*[[Gary Luck]]
*[[Mike McConnell]]
*[[William Pagonis]]
*[[Colin Powell]]
*[[H Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.]]
*[[John Warden]]
*[[Calvin Waller]]
*[[John Yeosock]]


==Afghan War==
==Afghan and Iraq Wars==


*[[John Abizaid]]
*[[George Casey]]
*[[Peter Chiarelli]]
*[[Mike DeLong]]
*[[Martin Dempsey]]
*[[Karl Eikenberry]]
*[[William Fallon]]
*[[Barbara Fast]]
*[[Tommy Franks]]
*[[Tommy Franks]]
 
*Robert Gates
==Iraq War==
*[[Stanley McChrystal]]
 
*[[David McKiernan]]
*[[George William Casey Jr.]]
*[[Dan McNeill]]
*[[Thomas Metz]]
*[[Ray Odierno]]
*[[David Petraeus]]
*[[David Petraeus]]
*[[Donald Rumsfeld]]
*[[Ricardo Sanchez]]
*Anthony Taguba
*[[John Vines]]

Latest revision as of 12:42, 13 September 2024

Revolutionary War

Civil War

Union

Confederacy

Spanish-American War

World War I

World War II

Korean War

Vietnam War

Gulf War

Afghan and Iraq Wars