Very good take on this. The only place I have found where war works is in a Clancy novel. People forget the Rangers climbing the cliffs into German machine guns on D-Day to take out the big guns that were not there.
Bravery is bravery no matter what or why.
Precisely. Its what wins in the final analysis. Courageous men can make a poorly planned bad idea a winner. I can give you hundreds of examples. Ultimately it wasn't the airmen saved or the effectiveness of fighter cover it was that Americans went to Japanese turf and took it away from them.