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To fairly evaluate a decisionmaker, you have to stick to looking at what the decisionmaker knew.
One of the greatest challenges for military historians is determining how to evaluate the capacity of leaders in battle. It’s easy to paint caricatures making generals and admirals either heels or heroes. These portrayals are also the least helpful. They offer nothing for those who want to understand the role leaders play in fighting and winning and the conditions and dynamics under which they make decisions. Historians can do better.
There are different ways to evaluate the quality of decisionmaking. One is to ask: Did the leader make the best decision at the time? To answer that question, assessments need to stick to the information the leader had at the time and the context in which that decision had to be made. Today, for instance, some argue General Sherman’s Civil War “March to the Sea” (Nov. 15 – Dec. 21, 1864) was barbaric and unnecessary. But does that mean he made th