For all your claims of having stacks of books on military strategy your ignorance on this point is astonishing.
1. The general conduct of the Pacific campaign was worked out by the Navy in war games long before the strike on Pearl Harbor.
2. Are you honestly ignorant of the detailed planning behind the Battle of Midway. Do you really think that Nimitz put the entire carrier force of the pacific at risk without a clear plan?
3. For all the bloodshed in the Battle of the Solomon Islands, it had long been identified as an important strategic target, which justified the cost.
4. Do you actually think MacArthur just sort of blundered into Japan after VJ day discovering he now commanded the place? The success of the occupation of Japan had largely been worked out before McArthur set foot in the place.
5. MacArthur and Patton lived strategy from early days of their lives. Each in his own manner was a genius on the subject. It is not irrelevant that Patton was an expert swordsman, and Olympic contender and author of a book on the subject. MacArther is one of the greatest military geniuses ever to have lived, an absolutely brilliant, subtle and comprehensive mind.
6. Do you really think that the Battle of Britain or the Battle of the Atlantic were fought without clear plans and strategies as to what was to be accomplished and how?
No, we did not just blunder our way into a victory in WWII.
The last time we tried blundering and reacting was Vietnam, which every professional military officer who served in that war or since knows was one of the worst planned and conducted strategic blunders in the history of warfare. There is hardly a "lesson of war" that we did not violate in that war.
But didn't they say that Robert McNamara was not only the brightest, but the bestest...