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Quiz: If you were a military leader, who would you be?

You can see who I would be here.

Since I don’t know a lot about military history, I’m not sure what this really means (I’ll be googling to learn after I post this). I like the Nobel Peace Prize win though.

Who are you?

Hattip to Reasoned Audacity.

Update: Wow – I know it’s only Wikipedia, but it puts me to shame for not knowing all this – I like the comparison to Teddy Roosevelt, from the sound of this:

In 1901, as Vice President, the 42 year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley after McKinley’s assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He is the youngest person to become President.[4] He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a “trust buster“. He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. His “Square Deal” promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs) and the businessmen. He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance.[5][6] As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910, he broke with his friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. He beat Taft in the popular vote and pulled so many Progressives out of the Republican Party that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the Republican Party for the next two decades.

Here’s a tribute to one of the leaders in the quiz – but be sure to watch or advance to about 58 seconds and go from there. You’ll be sorry if you don’t. Didn’t anyone else ever hear the rumor that these folks didn’t know English when they first started singing these songs?

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  • elrod
    I love George H. Thomas, a Virginian who fought for the Union in the Civil War. The hero of the Army of the Cumberland, Thomas was instrumental in rolling back Braxton Bragg in KY and TN and for saving his army at Chickamauga. I just went to Chattanooga/Chickamauga Battlefield last Friday by the way. Gorgeous place. Georgis is funny. I saw a sign that said, "Praise the Lord...Eat a Biscuit!"
  • LOL - you sure there wasn't a Popeye's nearby (sorry - I just love their biscuits).

    So - is that who you are as a military leader?
  • Apparently I'm Wesley Clark... he's like Captain Picard of our times...
  • StockBoySF
    I'm Wesley Clark, too. I guess I'll be Captain Picard in my next life. I call dibs! :)

    Thanks Jill, that was fun and informative!
  • That's fine.. but I call being Q. Mwhahaha
  • elrod
    Jeebus, I'm Stonewall Jackson! So there I go praising a Virginia Unionist in George Thomas and the test makes me a West Virginia Confederate! Ugh. Jackson's Valley campaign was one for the ages though. And the forced march from Harper's Ferry to Antietem was nasty.

    I guess I'm old fashioned. I believe in front-line loyalty and morale. That's George Thomas too!
  • elrod
    JMZ,
    No, it was definitely not a Popeye's. It was some North Georgia local joint. It was in Rossville on US27 just below Chattanooga. I could just FEEL I was in Georgia.
  • StockBoySF
    ChrisWWW: LMAF! Very good. OK, you can be Q. I'll see you in a couple hundred years. :)
  • mikkel
    I was Clark too, but since I was following the directions very closely I'm not sure how accurate it was. My general thought was that if the unit was doing well before I got there, and I was only there for three days then why screw anything up trying to dictate exactly what to do without knowing them that well. When I took it assuming that I had been in command long enough to actually know what to expect I got Bradley.
  • StockBoySF
    My thought while going through the exercise the first time was to nurture my men- showed them I trusted them and yet offer guidance. That's how I came up with Clark.

    Hmmm... so I just took it again, only this time I pretended to be someone who wanted his way, someone who micromanaged. Now I'm Lord Horatio Alger. I wonder if that would make me the Borg in the future....
  • pacatrue
    I just wanted to add that this is the first time I could really hear all the lyrics to Waterloo clearly.
  • StockBoy - I did a bit of that, but not entirely - guess that's how I ended up with Teddy Roosevelt.

    Regardless, I need Remedial Military Leaders, 101.
  • StockBoySF
    Jill, the first time I answered how I thought I would act. Though questions and answers (what the answers are trying to get at) are so transparent that I could "feel" what I was doing. The second time I closed my eyes and imagined a general who micromanaged and wanted to do everything on his own. Then I tried it the second time. I didn't expect Alger. I wanted to be an ancient, like Alexander or Cyrus, but they're not a possibility. But I don't know if that's because the nature of armies have changed over time, or if there wasn't enough information to include Alexander or Cyrus, or a combination of the two or some other reason.
  • Hey - overthinking is my role! :) I think you've irreparably skewed your results. lol
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