User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Roger's Equal/@comment-3119203-20110217032434/@comment-3401636-20110223095705

the reason Kong and the gorousei didn't fight in the war was because they are not commissioned officers. they're at the top of the VIP list. it's like in real life, you don't see military generals actually fighting in wars, they're at some safe place, directing and organising the whole thing from behind the scenes. And besides, they're old, they probably lost some of their power anyways