That's their job. To avoid sacrifices of life when unnecessary, and to decide when it is necessary to send soldiers to their deaths. It seems assumptive to di

That's their job. To avoid sacrifices of life when unnecessary, and to decide when it is necessary to send soldiers to their deaths. It seems assumptive to discount the millions of souls weighing on a leader's shoulders. I'm sure there are monsters, but it's a terrible thing to have responsibility for, one I wouldn't want, and one which when assumed I won't begrudge them the distractions of worldly pleasures. The particular irony of WWI is that, had the Germans prosecuted the war more aggressively (absorbing more casualties) at the crux of the Marne (as they later did in the WWII invasion of France), Paris would have been captured, France likely would have fallen, and trench warfare would have been avoided.