We should study military history so we do not make the same mistakes, and use some of those good ideas to improve our leadership as NCOs and professional soldiers. The goal of military history is to teach us that wars are not the most costly of human casualties. According to Frye (2005), there were only few lives lost in the first Gulf War, whereas in Rwanda, where no military were involved, militias and violent gangs murdered thousands of people with no remorse. The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 took more lives than the War of World War I. Also, within the last 90 years at least 3.2 million people died in vehicle accidents than in combat in the last 230. Maybe what aggravates society about wars is not the horrific violence; but the views that leaders of the world have to want to use them into persuading society into thinking that they are unavoidable and not like illnesses or vehicle accidents. According to Morrillo (2006), "Military hіѕtоry rеmіndѕ people that sometimes wаr portrays a strange feeling, and threats of war, has been the major contributor to ending all forms of slavery, fascism, Nazism, Soviet Communism, and Japanese militarism."

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