![]() ‘We should always approach questions of war, and peace, with sober, measured and restrained minds.’ Michael Pezzullo His message also encouraged recipients to watch 1995 Hollywood blockbuster Crimson Tide, starring Denzel Washington, which takes place on a nuclear submarine during a period of political turmoil in Russia. We should always approach questions of war, and peace, with sober, measured and restrained minds, not least because as we might be tempted to calculate our odds of victory, there is someone else who is calculating theirs.” “While we might think that we can master it through reason, in war we are the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. “In an era of nuclear weapons, and the unpredictable effects of the rapid application to war of generative artificial intelligence and other rapidly emerging disruptive technologies, let us heed Churchill’s warning, more than has been done in the past,” he wrote in the note, titled “The End of War”, while in London last month. He referenced Erich Maria Remarque’s novel All Quiet on the Western Front and the writings of British wartime prime minister Winston Churchill and Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausewitz to say: “We are all bound in a sacred duty to do whatever we can to prevent war, by whatever means of diplomacy, resolve and other efforts, such as we might be able to bring to bear.” In a reflective message, Pezzullo wrote that after centuries of wars, it shocked the world to think that its terror was still being felt, highlighting the “brave people of Ukraine. Since then, the West has united to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion in February last year, while global leaders try to remain unified against China’s rising assertiveness in the region and threats towards Taiwan.
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