Yep I dont have my reference works at work as one of the early musilm gererals probaly should be in the list but he got written out of history some what.
BTW Carthage was a Colony so not realy non european in that sense.
BTW Carthage was a Colony so not realy non european in that sense.
Some others, often overlooked from a Western viewpoint, would be Subutai, Timur the Lame (Tamerlane), Belisarius, Zhukov, and Suleiman I. There are more.
Arguably Marius and Sulla were the equal, if not better than, Caesar. And Pompey was no slouch either. And another great Roman general was Scipio.
Some more modern generals not mentioned are Fredrick the Great and Gustavus Adolphus, plus Rommel.
One of Hitler's mistakes* was to believe he was a good general. Stalin at least had the good sense to let his generals get on with it.
* Thankfully.
Unlikely to actually be true but a cute story.