Quote Originally Posted by Gian P Gentile View Post
Nothing fancy here; just the basics.

I will go with Abe Lincoln; all time greatest political leader in war, ever ("ever" being intentionally said with my own American exceptionalist bias admitted)

gian
I could agree with this one. The man definately had to deal with quite a variety of issues and in doing so was pretty effective.

That said I think several of the Roman leaders would probably be good examples considering that they were not only politicians but warriors and quite often at the same time. And thats not even looking at the economics, social developments, etc.

Finally may be more to some leaders here than we realize. It's often difficult to truly know what someone actually dealt with and how till about 30 years later. So the jurys still out on some of them.