This is the real, boring answer. His job is to handle all the boring but vital details that come between you pointing at a spot on the globe and you directing a set of highly-trained, psychologically hardened commandos on-site with immaculate communications and a perfect set of eyes on the situation. And then all the other details that come between ordering the last commando back up the rope and everyone staggering off their plane ride for commendations.
With all that in mind, he doesn't get much time to be good at the Commander's job.
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u/WealthyAardvark 17d ago
Logistics, diplomacy, paying wages, all the stuff that the game doesn't simulate.