What was the greatest military plan for a single battle in history?

Tower of T

Canae. The double envelopement there became the standard for all military thought from there forward. Its one of the first battles they teach at West Point.

uncle osbert

the remains of the roman army vs. boudica

seriously dude... outnumbered 20 to 1 and all we have are spears and shields? no problem!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Watling_Street

John K

Colonel-General Erwin Rommel at the Battle of Gazala May 26 to June 21,1942
An important battle of the World War II Western Desert Campaign, fought around the port of Tobruk in Libya. The combatants on the Axis side were Rommel and his Panzer Army Afrika, consisting of German and Italian units; Allied forces were the British Eighth Army, commanded by Major General Neil Ritchie under the close supervision of the Commander-in-Chief Middle East, General Sir Claude Auchinleck. It was the battle that lead to the fall of Tobruk. Unfortunatly Rommel was on the wrong side and it turned out to be a short lived victory.

daniel r

i like hitlers blitza kreig when u storm with planes then u send in the tanks in straight lines then infantry

Will B

Sun Tzu said, "Consummate skill in the art of war is not the winning of great battles, but of achieving one's aim with out fighting."

So, I would answer either Hitler's conquest of the Rhineland or Austria.

Thomas S

well i would say it is either pearl harbor, doolittle's raid, or the battle of jutland all were successful

thetravelinggardener

Git there furstest with the mostest.

Nat

What exactly is your metric for determining the answer to this question? Is it victory with the most favorable casualty ratio? Is it victory that led to a great strategic advantage? Is it a victory that saw little or no deviance from the original plan? Or is it a victory that saw triumph against overwhelming odds?

If you're talking Hannibal, Cannae would be it. Trebia, Lake Trasimine were noteworthy, but Cannae is the one that opened up the road to Rome and total victory - if only Hannibal had taken it.

Is it Marathon? Salamis and Plataea are far more convincing as epic battles, as they led to both the destruction of the Persian host and the cessation of the Persian will to conquer Hellas.

Third Battle of Kharkov? The architect of that was Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein, the man who was responsible for the armored drive through the Ardennes that crushed Western Europe in seven weeks, the man who brought the mighty fortress of Sevastopol to its knees.

There are countless noteworthy battles besides, but until you've defined your parameters a bit more clearly, this is one question that defies both consensus and serious extrapolation.

isaac a

good god you took the words out of my mouth.I was going to say Hannibal at lake Trebia.when the romans cast themselves into the water they drowned because the weight of there armor took them to the bottom.

Its not me Its u

I'm biased too, i liked Paul Hausser's tactical plan at the 3rd Battle of Kharkov, 1943. His II. SS Panzer Corps defeated a Red Army 7 times his size, and he stabilized the front after the debacle at Stalingrad.

Black Sabbath

Gotta be the Battle of Marathon.

Maria

If you want to call the D Day invasion a single battle, then Operation Overlord.

Otherwise, maybe Marathon.

HHH

Well D-Day was a disaster for the Americans so that wasn't a good plan but mind due there has never been a god plan in American history.The Somme because the British got it in the end.

dark revan

Asault on omaha beach

teh_sexi_hotttie

You actually look very creepy.

GEN Gamer

i believe one of the best military plans ever conceived was ISrael's strike on the french built iraqi nuclear reactor and during the six day war , they effective destruction of the entire egyptian air foce on the ground

observer

battle of austerlitz

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