Star Wars supplies a fictional case study in military professionalism. Jedi may function well as special operatives or commandos, but those abilities do not automatically make them trained generals, and their results vary. Existing naval officers could command fleets, while experienced clone soldiers might have offered an alternative path to army leadership. The appropriate arrangement also depends on whether the Clone Wars are understood as conventional war, civil war, or police action, because emissaries and peacekeepers fit those missions differently. Since the Republic confronts a droid army rather than merely policing civilians, command authority needs to match the conflict actually being fought.
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A Star Wars analogy separates special talent from generalship
A clearly fictional command case asks whether the Republic matched leadership roles and military preparation to the kind of war it was actually fighting.