So he is an excellent cook and I guess when you get in a relationship with someone, you have to kind of 'up the ante' a bit so he was a really good cook and I needed to impress him with my skills!
Some, like the disastrous Dardanelles campaign—an audacious attempt he masterminded at the Admiralty to seize the straits of Gallipoli and knock Turkey out of the first world war—he got wrong.
I think there's a lot more talk going on at the tactical and operational level, while the heads of state remain bellicose but it is just upping the ante and you never know when this might happen.
He wanted to give the players a chance to walk away from it all knowing the stakes and if they came back then that would ease his conscience slightly as the choice was now completely theirs.