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I was thinking of phrasing the title of the thread as more of a question-why did so many prominent American WWII commanders lack combat experience? The most prominent examples are Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower. I'm not 100% certain, but I believe Generals George Marshall and Lesley McNair, the Army Ground Forces commander, did not have combat experience either (they were both deployed to France as staff officers during WWI, but I don't believe they directly participated in combat). General Albert Wedemeyer, the author of the Victory Plan, and Admiral William Leahy, the JCS chairman, also lacked combat experience.

So my question is, would the America's strategy and performance in WWII be any different if the aforementioned individuals had combat experience? Obviously, for this question, assume that they survived such combat experience. Would they have been better strategists if they had seen combat?
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