My experience with war is based on a Spartan captain that fought in one of Spartas wars.
He was a mid range officer, yet he had so much integrity and honor that he ended up leading both the Spartan side as well as the enemy’s side.
This calls to the understanding of morale and wisdom in a war.
Churchill had some of the same. The courage and bad assery he did was exceptional.
So finding a way to lead, with integrity is paramount.
The first thought MUST be to the soldiers. Never leave a man behind. George W. Bush was good at this. He was a good war leader. Caring for the soldiers. He was careful putting soldiers in harms way, as he said.
Then war is a lot of posturing. Putting up ships here, moving around.
We have the best hardware and fighting capabilities. But it is more an insurance than an attempt at using it all the time. These assets are horrifyingly expensive. So they should be used with great care.
But WHEN you put them in. Then there is no holding back. At least this was the maxim of Karl the great the German emperor, and he did a lot of warring and winning.
Posturing->full on war.
This lead to the term “blitzkrieg”, that is overrunning an unprepared enemy.
So this was the back catalogue of strategy I used the last time.
G-d bless the will to win this war, and then make peace.
