Finnish marshal who led the defense of Finland during the Winter War and preserved the nation’s independence against overwhelming Soviet force.
Rank - 155
He conquered the Andes with mathematics, sunlight, and an unreasonable sense of direction.
Rank - 160
In the steaming chaos of East Africa, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck fought the entire British Empire to a standstill with nothing but mosquitoes, discipline, and pure Prussian spite.
Rank - 185
They advanced like a single starving organism made of steel, superstition, and the certainty that the world existed only to be taken.
Group Rank - 193
They moved as if the cold had carved secret truths into their bones, two brotherhoods built to appear where no one should exist and to leave before anyone realized they were there.
Group Rank - 194
The Marinejegerkommandoen move through the world like a cold-water omen, leaving only the hush of their passing behind.
Group Rank - 196
Smedley D. Butler was a two-time Medal of Honor–winning U.S. Marine who spent decades fighting America’s overseas wars during the age of imperial expansion. After retiring, he became one of the nation’s fiercest critics of war profiteering, condemning the very system that had made him famous.
Rank - 148