The scenario centres on two officers whose deaths removed unusual experience shortly before the Second World War. The exercise first establishes their historical roles, then follows only changes that can be tied plausibly to their personalities, expertise, and positions. Alternate history is used to identify which decisions were genuinely contingent rather than to invent unrestricted outcomes. That bounded approach shows where personal leadership could matter without assuming that every later event bends to two surviving admirals.
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Using Henderson and Fisher to test which decisions mattered
The survival of Admirals Reginald Henderson and William Wordsworth Fisher becomes a controlled alternate-history test of leadership, institutions, and wartime choices.