What Sun Tzu deliberated, is very interesting. He perhaps intimated, that only soldiers should decide, when to go to war. Perhaps in his time, the King was as much a soldier as the members of his army. It is imperative, that soldiers decide when to enter into a conflict, and how to enter into a conflict. Adolf Hitler was a soldier, but he had retired from active conflict a time before, whereby a length of time had passed before the Second World War, and his retirement. Also, he was not well versed on how to lead an army. If I had been Adolf Hitler, I would not have sacrificed prudence and started a war. All Germany needed to do was rearm, and integrate her society with the rest of Europe, through peaceful means. The armed forces is the most valuable asset of a national leader, because the armed forces recruits the best resources in personnel, through the voluntary initiative of the personnel, before recruitment.