It wasn't long ago I asked you what a military should do (other than attain victory). You responded with me earning a load of disrespect (but yet, never answered my question).

The deterrence and diplomatic theories that you peruse have all but been proven to be a failure by more than one Western nation. It's one thing to deter an attack against one's State and entirely another set of rules to deter or stop an attack against another State.

Do you then propose we train all our soldiers in some sort of diplomatic gaming vs marksmanship and combat ? Heh, we could then do away with politicians and everybody would simply join the ranks

Hmmm, who exactly has a narrow view ?