He is the highest-ranking wartime leader brought before the tribunal, and his trial will lend added authority to the court.
But for wartime leaders, political capital can drain quickly.
The operation to arrest Prijedor's wartime leaders is the best news to come from Bosnia in some time.
It convicted other wartime leaders individually of crimes against humanity for their part in what was euphemistically called the "comfort women" system.
And The Hague tribunal is scaring other wartime leaders.
His latter work came to the attention of wartime leaders, including Winston Churchill.
Still, for presidents, especially for wartime leaders, political capital can drain quickly from the White House account.
The two wartime leaders glared at the old pedant and began to wish that they had left him to his bucolic maunderings.
Serbian wartime leaders were chased from power.
"A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory," the British wartime leader said.