Gosh Folks
You really oughta read and digest some Col von Clausewitz.
For the few who may not know him, he was just a lowly staff officer -- but no general who had him on his staff ever lost a battle.
Anyhow, this guy is on a par with Sun Tzu Wu.
And he invented Catch 23 before Catch 22 ever got invented.
Essentially, he schematically paragraphs out what to do on a battlefield in every possible scenario, e.g. you're uphill fighting downhill or vice versa. Then he lays down the rules any sensible infantry officer should apply -- but at the end of lists of scenarios he has his Catch 23: "However, in the case of genius (leadership), ignore all of the above."
He never became a general because to rise that high, you seem to have to become sharp at office politics and Col. von Clausewtiz was perhaps too Prussian a professional soldier to stoop to that.
Generals are products of a bureaucratic apparatus.
Most anywhere except in revolutionary armies, which are inceasingly rare nowadays.
If anyone sees this as slandering any particularly high-profile celebrity general, I apologize forthwith.
Think it through anyhow.