Could you also tell me why it would be easier to come out with better ideas under wartime conditions than it would in time of peace?

Many of the worlds innovations came out of war. Necessity is the mother of invention as they say. But you are still either missing the point or deliberately clouding the issue. You simply cannot say if X did not happen then Y would not have either in a situation so complex. I fully accept that you have studied the period and I have not but to unequivocally say that "without him doing precisely what he did we would have lost the war" is not a fact. Which is the only argument I have put forward.

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