I think you - and some of those on the forum you linked to - are missing the point.
Nimitz walked into a place of woe & misery & dejection. His comments focused on something positive, a point to build from, and something to look forward to.
Actual real items are less valuable when fighting a war than the attitude and moral of those fighting & supplying a war.
Doesn't matter if those 3 points were technically 'real' and 100% accurate summery of the situation or not. It matters that people of the day had something positive to hang their hat on, something to build from.
The point is not to make an accurate, ironclad summery of the opposition in one day - the point is to rally the troops at hand and those back at home to see some positives, to gather round and start rebuilding.
Another way of saying what he did: "We got manpower, we got infrastructure to build with, we got an energy supply to build with - let's go use those and get on with it." That message is quite accurate, and if it can be delivered with a bit of a put-down upon the other side so much the better.
Good leader.
We are lacking those qualities in govt at this time, imho. I'm not going to name names, as it crosses to all sides - again imho.
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