Less trouble than going to the caves during future wars.
However, it is also sometimes applied to earlier wars and to a hypothetical future war.
They all concede that their notions of future war could be completely wrong.
The new strategy seems to be seeking ways to avoid similar problems in any future war.
Will that improve the treatment of American soldiers in future wars?
"What we are trying to reach is a point where a future war will be impossible," a senior Israeli official said.
More important, our young men and women would be at greater risk in future wars.
Roosevelt saw air strategy as a key to future war and a way to reduce American casualties.
That would turn out to be a major oversight if their intention was to ready themselves for some future war.
If committing to an unlikely future war helps us win the present one, we should take the risk.