Medical ethics - not medical techniques - are probably the leading way to decrease or increase deaths due to war

How doctors and nurses morally regard all of their fellow human beings, rather than how they medically treat their actual, relatively few, patients, is probably the number one determinate in whether wars are relatively bloodless or particularly bloody.

The entire culture takes many of its moral cues from the medical professionals and when they (as in WWII Germany and America )  sanction or even advocate neglecting or killing those judged lesser than others, this attitude bleeds across the whole country and into the actions of its troops --with horrendous consequences.

By stubborn, Stars we steer : sometimes charisma can be over-rated ...

"Be careful how you walk, so you won't step into the charisma" warns one cartoon character to the other : ie, don't mistake apparent charisma for actual bullshit.

Henry Dawson oozed non-charisma in spades but what he did have by the buckets full was mere ordinary stubbornness.

By stubborn , Stars we steer...

Considering all that this dying man did achieve with just his extra-ordinary stubbornness and his penicillin-of-hope, it is safe to say that charisma can sometimes be over-rated....