Not because he's tactically perfect or amazingly quick but because rare among elite he saw the major danger coming when most were singing "we are the World".
"The appeasers had been powerful; they had controlled the Times and the BBC ... because their possessions were great the appeasers had much to lose ...so with their eyes open they sought accomodation with a criminal regime, turned a blind eye to its iniquities ...
ignored its frequent resort to murder and torture ... until having sold out all ... led England herself to the damp shadow of the gallows." William Manchester on the 1930s.
