I would argue that you can be a good quartermaster and a bad general, but you can't be a bad quartermaster and a good general. WWI basically ended when the 5 years of attrition was stalled because the blockade of Germany starved their population to the point of giving up. France and England actually enjoyed better standards of living during the war (in places that weren't battle ravaged), because trade with the US went through the roof, whereas Germany became destitute due to their only port being blockaded by the British. The war was effectively over when Germany lost some decisive Naval battles, but like all Lost Causes it took them years to admit it to themselves. (For comparison, Grant argues that the Civil War was won at the Battle of Chattanooga, which if memory serves was in fall 1863, since after that point he had effectively bisected the South.)

I haven't read much about Napoleon but it seems that he probably made the same mistake of trying to take Russia, which extended his lines way longer than they could sustain. Noe we have a President whose knowledge of history doesn't even go as far back as Pearl Harbor trying to coordinate a logistics operation that has a wartime feel to it. It's not going well.