History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
Battlefield
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son’s death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
You have to remember that although Gandhi and Churchill only met physically once, their paths crossed again and crossed again all over the globe, from London and South Africa and India and back to London. In fact, I discovered that during the Boer War in 1899 they literally passed yards from each other on the battlefield.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.