The most important decisions you make are often not what to do, but what not to do. Like the time singer James Blunt “prevented World War III”.

The most important decisions you make are often not what to do, but what not to do. Like the time singer James Blunt “prevented World War III”.

Before he became a hit singer, James was a Captain in the British Army. At a 1999 stand-off during the Kosovo War known as the “Incident at Pristina Airport”, he risked a court marshall by refusing an order from US General Wesley Clark, who was the NATO Supreme Commander in Europe, to attack the Russians and potentially sparking a World War III.

James...