chief > His views at the time were certainly inaccurate and would never be accurate until he acknowledges parts that he wasn’t told, which would require adjustment of views.
This seems like the biggest challenge of our times. We learned, the hard way, that world affect us – through assimilation, reform, communists, nazis, UN, arabs, zionists … So, if we stay limited to our own way of life, we get blindsided. If we join the fray, we might asiimilate…
In old times, it sometimes worked when just the askanim and great leaders like R Yochanan b Zakkai would get involved, but it looks like it is not sufficient in our times. The story goes that anti-religious theatre (tautological?) showed a Jewish army where those who bilta house/got married leave, then those who are afraid leave, with only R Chaim Brisker and R Spector were left. R Chaim responded taht this is right and they won the war.
But do we really think that a modern Rosh Yeshiva can win all the wars without socvial scientists, generals, doctors, engineers – all working together.
If this were so, then Chofetz Chaim would have helped Polish government build tanks to fights germans and russians instead of petitioning the Poles to relax sanitary regulations on mikvaos explaining Jews could not afford building non-stinky ones (he did not ask for subsidies either).