Sure thing. The truth is most generals keep falling into the same traps because they see history as a series of anecdotes, not a playbook. They forget the lesson: if you win, you study why you won; if you lose, you study why you lost. The big blunders we still hear about—think of Maginot, Stalingrad, or the Normandy over‑confidence—are reminders that strategy is a living thing, not a textbook. If a commander thinks “we’ve done it before, it’ll work again,” that’s where the cycle of failure begins. The military world missed the point that the battlefield changes faster than the generals' pride.