Good diary. I've saying it for years.....winning generals make winning candidates, but battlefield heroes don't.
That would be an interesting study, though of course you'd have to go back so far in history I don't know how well you could make a prediction.
All I know is if being if service records were a determining factor, Reagan, Clinton, and Bushboy would never have been presidents while McGovern, Dole, and McCain would have.
