Bo-Katan saying she wishes she was good at something other than war is extremely funny when you realize she's actually really bad at war.
While the plan to take over Mandalore via sending a bunch of criminals to "attack" it so that Death Watch can "save" it works temporarily, their leader is immediately killed by one of the criminals and Bo-Katan isn't able to do anything about it so she just runs off. She can't even save her own sister from said criminal and runs off again.
Bo-Katan is then incapable of rallying enough support to free Mandalore from Maul and Death Watch on her own, so she has to recruit a young former Jedi whose last (and first) interaction with her involved Bo-Katan trying to kill her. Unfortunately, said former Jedi Padawan can't actually help save Mandalore either so she has to go back to the Jedi to ask them to send clones to Mandalore to die for Bo-Katan's cause. The only reason Bo-Katan frees Mandalore at all is because a few Jedi feel bad enough for Ahsoka that they allow her to take some of the forces who ARE good at war to fight off Death Watch.
And then the Empire comes in and Bo-Katan is almost immediately ousted from her leadership of Mandalore and seemingly is incapable of getting it back from Gar Saxon for almost 20 years and ends up needing the help of another young kid and a Jedi Padawan to free Mandalore again.
And then a few years later the Empire comes back and Bo-Katan is immediately stupid enough to think she can negotiate with them and it leads to most of her planet being glassed and many of her people being killed.
She then spends the next almost ten years wandering around the galaxy trying to find the Darksaber again and immediately loses it to some random bounty hunter, which causes her to lose what little support she'd managed to gain since her planet was glassed.
And when she finally regains leadership of Mandalore for the latest time, it's due primarily to a series of weird accidents that give her the support of a traditionalist group that branched off from Death Watch who can go in and fight off the dregs of the Empire one last time.
Bo-Katan's experience of war is a series of losses followed by someone else who's BETTER at war than she is coming in to win a battle for her only for Bo-Katan to immediately lose again right afterwards once she's left on her own. She SUCKS at war and apparently isn't actually good at anything else, which leaves her good at essentially nothing but being an insensitive prejudiced bitch most of the time.
So the only thing she succeeded without external forces was saving Obi-Wan from Maul? It's a bit small
I mean, arguably, she succeeds at plenty of things, but those things just don't equate to her being good at WAR, which is specifically what this post is about. Saving Obi-Wan does not constitute war, it's just... a rescue operation that involved knocking out like 2-3 people so Obi-Wan could get himself back to his ship.
She also does succeed at things like: getting Satine out of jail and to a place where she can call the Jedi for aid, convincing Ahsoka to help her, convincing people to follow her at minimum three different times, helping Din and friends take Moff Gideon's ship, etc. But none of these successes are enough to constitute "being good at war" which is the claim she makes in TCW s7.
So if I'm being a little kinder about her skills than I was in the original post, you could probably say that her greatest strength is being scrappy. Bo-Katan is a cockroach, she just refuses to die despite how often she loses, and she's like a dog with a fucking bone about a lot of things and just refuses to give up once she's dug her heels in which DOES lead her to a certain level of success, it's just that that success always seems to need other people's help and then it doesn't last long once she has it and she has to start all over again.
She can't truly win her own battles when it counts, she can never get ENOUGH support to actually take Mandalore back from its enemies, she can't HOLD Mandalore against its enemies once she has it, and she has not truly proven herself all that great of a political leader. So the two things that seem to matter to her (being good at war and being good at leading Mandalore) are things that she has proven over and over again are things she's actually really BAD at. This doesn't mean that she has zero skills necessarily, it's just that the skills she DOES have aren't all that useful in achieving her larger goals.
