Napoleon Bonaparte was a young artillery officer basically not known, protected the new government. Because in France existed inequalities, its citizens were not happy what the catholic church had done to force the people to join the "real religion".
It was October 6 1789 when the King and the royal family moved from Versailles to Paris under the protection of the National Guards, t by doing that, the National Assembly was legitimized.
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Previous military policies had created massive killings throughout long years on a war of aggression. Brinkmanship, as showed in history was used to let another country stop its war through massive retaliation. It is a more dangerous option to use nuclear weapons as a sign of power and capability to kill more people including civilians in a fast mode.