My choice would be Japan's Nishio Toshizo. . First he walks into a trap set by the Chinese during the Battle of Tai'erzhuang and hands the Japanese army their first defeat in modern times
Showing that he was a slow learner next year he march his army toward Changsa neglecting things like his flanks or reconnaissance, he again walk his army into an ambush set by the Chinese army in the Battle of Changsa. After that he get thrown upstairs as Military governor of Tokyo


and again gets his Army ambushed by the Chinese

Indeed Freyberg was commander of the New Zealand 2nd Division.
Alexander was overall campaign commander but it was Freyberg that lobbied for the monastery's bombing Alexander gave it the go ahead so there is no doubt he has to bear some responsibility just not all.

This is section I scanned from the book CASSINO - The Hollow Victory




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I'm obviously late to this forum--and I hope I'm posting correctly-- but haven't seen anyone mention Lesley McNair. His responsibility for killing the deployment of a heavy allied tank was alone enough to place him firmly on this list. While his Sherman tankers were getting blown to pieces in Normandy, he was appropriately killed by his own men by means of an allied bombing attack.

And its not that we weren't expecting bigger, better German tanks. Besides having reports of German tank performance in Russia, we actually directly came up against the Tiger tank in N. Africa.

even though he wasnt really a general id have to say Hitler himself, the 3rd Reich could have succeded in taking europe but he wouldnt listen to his generals and decided to attack Russia when he could have easily gone around to the middle east and gotten petrol there

Originally Posted by KeithG

I'm obviously late to this forum--and I hope I'm posting correctly-- but haven't seen anyone mention Lesley McNair. His responsibility for killing the deployment of a heavy allied tank was alone enough to place him firmly on this list. While his Sherman tankers were getting blown to pieces in Normandy, he was appropriately killed by his own men by means of an allied bombing attack.

And its not that we weren't expecting bigger, better German tanks. Besides having reports of German tank performance in Russia, we actually directly came up against the Tiger tank in N. Africa.

Seems there are a lot of contenders for the title of worst commander, perhaps a we would have been better off choosing worst commander by nationality.