Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.
I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.
The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.