Why did Napoleon build modern France and still lose everything?

Why did Napoleon build modern France and still lose everything?

In “Napoleon: Lessons for Today’s Leaders,” Andrew Roberts argues that Napoleon is best understood not as a simple warmonger or proto-Hitler, but as a builder, military genius, meritocratic reformer, mythic figure, and flawed leader whose strategic overreach, protectionism, family favoritism, and personnel failures helped undo him.