Why I consider Amir Temur the greatest commander
In my view, though I may be mistaken, the Great Temur ranks first among the greatest commanders in all history, followed by Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great and Hannibal Barca.
Why I consider Amir Temur the greatest commander
As I see it, though I may be mistaken, if I place the Great Temur first among the greatest commanders in all history, then I give Hannibal Barca fourth place, after Temur, Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great. Why do I put Temur first? Because Temur worked out all the main elements of his strategic campaigns himself and took a direct part in and led all his campaigns for 40 years, until his last days, during the campaign he had launched to conquer China. After the conquest of Central Asia, Genghis Khan no longer took part in further campaigns: his generals Subutai Bagatur, Jebe Noyon and others carried out the later conquests.
Temur and Genghis Khan were invincible commanders. Alexander the Great was invincible too, but he did not conduct as many military campaigns as Temur and Genghis Khan, since he conquered the internally weak Achaemenid Empire in just a few battles and undertook a campaign to conquer India, but could not continue it because of exhaustion and his soldiers’ refusal to carry on the Indian campaign. Alexander died too young, at the age of 33. He did not manage to do everything he had planned. As far as I recall, he planned to seize most of India and, later, Italy.
Besides, the territories conquered by Temur and Genghis Khan were larger than the state Alexander created, though in military talent he was not inferior to Temur and Genghis Khan. After Hannibal I put fifth the military genius Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor and statesman of the French, who laid the foundations of the modern French state. Napoleon lost the war against the Russian Empire, lost the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1814 and was defeated at Waterloo in 1815. The above are my own subjective opinion and assessment.