No, that's not it at all. I was asking if Jefferson Davis was inept in many of the ways Hitler was, as far as a military leader went.
Davis main weakness as a military commander was his favoritism. Several time Davis made dicisions based on who he liked not who was best for the job, most notably in the cases of Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood, this resulted on several good generals being underused or simply sent to a quite corner of the war to be out of Davis' way (See PGT Beauregard for further referance).
Also Davis believed that the only way to defeat the Union and gain the CSA's independance was to be offensive while allowing the Union to be to invading force...for the most art. As such even when the CSA were totally outnumbered and struggling for its life he refused to change his idea on how to war wa fought and continued to demand his commanders be offensive. To ensure this he removed Joe Johnston from command in Georgia, where he was giving Sherman the hardest challenge he had had to face the whole war, and replaced him with Hood, who subsequently lost the Atlanta Campaign with heavy casualties and destroyed his own army in Tennessee.
Davis as well was a totally deluded man. Even after Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered, Even after the only eastern State effectively left in the CSA's hands was North Carolina, even after Beauregard had gone to him and told him they could no longer fight he still believed that he could turn the tide of the War by heading out west and raising another army. Only when Joe Johnston came to him one day after Beauregard did and told him the War was lost did Davis agree to surrender.
Hitler on the other hand tended to undermine his commanders rather than just pick the wrong ones for the job. No situation show this more than Stalingrad when Hitler was prepared to condemn most of the German army there to death when he told its commander that retreating or surrendering was not an option.
He did however seem be to a kindred spirit to Davis in terms of how he believed a war should be run and he was always demanding his armies to be offensive. The main difference between the two in this regards is that Hitler would allow a defensive campaign to be fought but if it was the Army and its commanders engaged in that campaign must fight to the death and never let the enemy advance a single inch into German territory.
Hitler too was a deluded man and believed that he could still turn the tide of his war even as the Allies were crossing the German borders and heading to Berlin. He continued to belive this until Berlin itself began to crumble arround him.
Another similarity between Hitler and Davis is that neither would admit that they had done anything wrong and blamed every problem their countries faced on traitorous subordinated and incompetitant generals. They never once believe that they had been one of the main causes of the defeat of the CSA or Nazi Germany.
