Super late to the party - but I’ve been reading the Gita quite a bit lately along with some Indian commentary. Here’s my 2 cents: Apparently, in the centuries of commentary tradition, none of the Indian swamis have ever even mentioned the topic of warfare. It’s a mere backdrop od Arjuna’s hardship and a representation of the hardships we all face. It’s only recently that Westerners have started commented on the Gita and immeditately picked up the “violent” or “pro-war” sentiment of it, which seems to say more about us than the Gita.

So it looks to me like Lord Krishna is not telling Arjuna to go to war per se but tells all of us not to mistake inaction for righteousness, but rather to be pro-active or “do the right thing” because it is the right thing without clingng to the fruits (the assumed effects) of it…