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The Greatest Space Strategists In Military History

Everybody always gives props to space captains: they're the ones sitting in the chair and commanding a spaceship going head-to-head with their bumpy-headed counterpart on the enemy ship. But one starship doesn't always win a space battle. Sometimes it's the general (or the admiral) sitting in an even bigger chair, who figures out where to send all the dozens, or thousands, of starships into battle like chess pieces. They're the tacticians and the master strategists, and we celebrate them below. More »

4:54 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
9,758 views, 99 comments

Latest by nirgal2002: I actually agree with including most of those listed. I would put Picard in place of Sisko. Sisko did have character and strategy, but Picard had more. The Picard maneuver was something that took daring. As did the ramming maneuver in more »