Stopping the war, or at least drastically curtailing its scope and violence, should be the prime goal of any outside power’s strategy, whatever the geopolitical compromises it might entail. Meanwhile, all tactical operations should be geared toward minimizing the mishaps and miscalculations that could expand the war or enflame the violence—in other words, toward extinguishing the first flicker of a flame that might repeat the pattern of World War I.
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