who is the greatest British military leader and why?

Lord Nelson. / Wellington / Gordon of Khartoum /

Winston Churchill / who led troops and fought in South African and Sudan / Montgomery /.Arther Harris.RAF(bomber command) 2nd world war- / (Dowding ) RAF fighter command 2nd world war.

While I have the deepest respect and admiration for Winston Churchill, he was not an actual, combat military leader. Saying that Chruchill was a military leader would be like saying that Roosevelt was a better military leader that Eisenhower, or Patton etc.

Winston Churchill appointed Mountbatten head of Combined Operations Command on 27th October 1941. He launched a series of commando raids including the disastrous Dieppe Raid in August 1942. The decision by Churchill to promote Mountbatten to vice admiral, lieutenant general and air marshall ahead of older and more experienced men upset senior officers in the military establishment.

In October 1943 Churchill appointed Mountbatten as head of the Southeast Asia Command (SEAC). Working closely with General William Slim Mountbatten directed the liberation of Burma and Singapore.

In 1947 Clement Attlee selected Mountbatten as Viceroy of India and he oversaw the creation of the independent states of India and Pakistan.

Mountbatten returned to service at sea and as Fourth sea Lord was commander of the Mediterranean Fleet (1952-55). He was also First Sea Lord (1955-59) and Chief of Defence Staff (1959-65). Louis Mountbatten was murdered by an IRA bomb while sailing near his holiday home in County Sligo, Ireland, on 27th August, 1979.

Britain has a long tradition of great (and some not-so-great) military leaders. Men as diverse as William the Conqueror, Richard I (Lionheart), Edward I, and Edward the Black Prince were brilliant Medieval tacticians. The Royal Navy produced leaders the likes of Drake, Hood, and Nelson. The modern era brought about the methodical precision and planning of Bernard Montgomery. in my opinion, Nelson was probably the greatest of them all. It was as if he saw naval combat from a different perspective than his contemporaries. Besides, he died gloriously in victory and that always sets your reputation.

Churchill was the greatest war time leader and without him none of us would be here now, but your asking military leader which is different and i would say Monty as mild as he was but a good strategist and he gave Rommel a run and i know i was a Jerboa

Winston Churchhill

The Irish would definitely not agree, but it is probably Oliver Cromwell for his creation of the New Model Army during the English Civil War and the tactics and strategies he used in actual combat, as well as his understanding of the political realities of war.

Winston Churchill. WWII. Nothing else needs to be said.

Montgomery - because of his campaigns in Northern Africa against Rommell. Market Garden wasn't the best though.

Are we restricted to people alive now, because you said "is"?

If not, I'd go for John Churchill

The Duke of Cumberland.