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D. Why war and peace go hand in hand
Only powerful talks about peace as peace is part of the war
British would have given two hoods about M. K. Gandhi had Indians did not have Tulwar(a sword) as part of the culture, a vibrant history of war, and there were enough warriors in Rajasthan, Bengal, Bihar, Punjab, and Maharashtra. If the Britishers did not promote and encouraged Gandhi, they would have been fighting a world war every day in India.
On January 22, 1879, in the Battle of Isandlwana, a native Zulu army of 20,000 warriors attacked the British forces of 1300 officers and 500 locals, all equipped with firearms, enveloped them, encircled them, and in spite of having primitive weapons, killed the entire British army in a decisive Zulu victory. The war was fought just after eleven days from when the British invaded the Zululand in the southern Africa.
If the British had not had to fight many such battles, which eventually they won in the mainland of Africa, nobody would have known Nelson Mandela’s name today.
Therefore war and peace go hand in hand. The way we saw our desert experiment did not have any casualties as long as a decisive victory was not ensured, or as long as a decisive victory was not needed,
No one pays attention to peace if they are not afraid of the war, and no war is fought if there is not eventual peace at the end of the war.