the worst general

war always gave birth to the most brilliant general....but how bout the worst general,doesn't we find them to in the course of history...so who's ur pick...i start with the italian general in WW 2 Graziani...his 250.000 man was crushed by 35.000 british in north africa campaign

well the worst American general by far was AMbrose Burnside, but for the entire world I would have to say either Santa Anna or whoever was the Russian general in the invasion of Finland.

Worse still than Graziani is Italian General Bergonzoli, nicknamed "electric whiskers" by his soldiers. Another, General Soddu was fired by Mussolini for spending more time composing music for the movies.

From the Spanish Army there was a General Silvestre who presided over the slaughter of 20,000 Spanish soldiers simply by not scouting for his Moroccan enemy first.

From the French, the worst must be General Gamelin who practically did nothing but brood in his headquarters at Vincennes while the Germans were busy liquidating the French army in 1940. Another must be General De Casteris at Dien Bien Phu.

One of the best books I have read is "MILITARY BLUNDERS" by Geoffrey Reagan

(who has now written a sequel to the first).  Describes with brutal clarity the

buffons, incompentents, vain glorious or just plain unlucky through out history.

Which one Anglo- Boer War . First which ended up on Majuba Hill with slaughter of entire british force or second where Sir Redverse Buller waz made a scapegoat for administrative incompetence and coruption in the top eshelons of British Army.
If got  there , Lord Kitchener also commited quite a few blunders eg Pradeberg.
And lets go back to Ambrose Burnside.In my opinion he was very competent corp
comander,but not suited to command the army.
To my list i would like to add ( of course gen. Hood will always be the first generals
Braxton Bragg - never made a right decision, and Jubal Early - toally useles during the battle of Getysburg,Incompetent as a comander of second Valley Army, and after the Cyvil War smearing campeign against Longstreed.