Joe Johnston, "Preeminent Strategist"?

For a long time, many military history students of the Civil War bought into the notion that Joseph E. Johnston was a master of Fabian-style strategy and operations who offered a winning alternative to the kind of aggressive, high-intensity (and high casualty) style of warfare favored by other generals such as Robert E. Lee and that the Confederacy could ill afford. Over the past several decades, though, I've gotten the impression that fewer and fewer people retain such faith in Johnston's abilities and his capacity for greatness. One of those who quite clearly does is F. Gregory Toretta. The author of one of two recent studies claiming that James Longstreet possessed visionary strategic and tactical acumen, Toretta's Preeminent Strategist: General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, The Confederacy’s Most Agile General (Casemate, NOV '25) takes on the case of another major Confederate high command figure that the author believes misunderstood and underappreciated. When it comes to providing a convincing argument in support of the grand claims outlined in the description, the author has a steep climb ahead of him (at least in my opinion), but I am always open to different approaches to disputed topics.