Correct. Violence, raw naked aggression, has a way of focusing one's attention in a way that nothing else can. There is nothing like being punched in the face to give one a nodding acquaintance with reality. One of our problems as a society (among the many) is that the people who are in the postions to decide when force will be used have no personal experience with it. It's purely an academic exersize of numbers and powerpoint spreadsheets to them. As anyone can see, this is bad. In 1683, when the overall commander of the combined forces of the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the senior leader, the last warrior-king of Poland, John III Sobieski ( https://infogalactic.com/info/John_III_Sobieski ), led the Winged Hussars in the center to break the siege and relieve Vienna, you can bet he knew very well how things could go. That's why he prayed. When the Pope calls you, "the saviour of Western Christendom", and even your enemies, the Ottoman turks start calling you, "Lion of Lechistan", you're doing it right.