Biggest contributions, as I see it
Was the will to go on in 1940, the speeches, and the tireless fostering of the alliance. He's constantly sailing the Atlantic to see Roosevelt, or taking the North Cape route to Moscow, or flying to Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta for conferences. No wonder he had a couple of strokes during the war, which is never talked about.
When it came to strategy, though, he was a menace. Simple concept: maximise concentration of force against enemy. All his plans for peripheral operations in Norway and the Balkans were either romantic, or strategically foolish, or both.
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