If that were the case, the Military rank and file would be for it.
@roamer_1 ROFLMAO! Nothing could be further from the truth. Professional soldiers are professional soldiers because they LOVE that bleep! Or probably closer to the truth,are adrenaline junkies.
I volunteered for every damn-fool thing that came along when I was in the army,and there was always people competing with me to fill that same slot. I had a friend who was awarded the Medal of Honor in VN after running cross-border recon missions into Laos and Cambodia for 6 years,and they finally pulled him off missions after he lost a lung on hilltop fighting off the NVA by himself as the other 5 guys on his team were trying to get to the helicopter.
Know how they got him to leave VN? He was told he was going to Camn Rah Bay to help plan a raid,and they they put something in his drink to sedate him. He was hours away from VN before he woke up and found out he was heading back to Bragg,and he WAS PISSED!
BTW,he died of the wounds he received that day in 1969 years later. IIRC,kidney cancer from contaminated blood transfusions.
He's not the only one,either. Truth to tell,other than the MoH,he was typical. Soldiers fight. That's what they spend their lives training to do,and that's what the want to do.
And Colonels and Generals LOVE war because it leads to higher commands and higher commands lead to more promotions. Some of them like to fight,too. My camp commander in VN was a LtCol that had been a tanker during the Korean War,so he didn't have a CIB (Combat Infantryman's Badge) because they are ONLY awarded to infantrymen. So he asked one of our more hotshot Recon Team Leaders,who happened to be another SSG/E-6 if he could go out on a mission with him and his team so he could earn a CIB. Joe,the team leader,told him "Sure,but you have to carry the radio and obey my commands." The LTC agreed,and as it happened I was on radio watch on a hilltop in Laos where we had a remote radio relay when they deployed,and happened to be taking the noon sitrep from the LTC when the microphone was shot out of his hand and we lost contact. Talk about people in the rear area panicking! They all got out ok after a day or two of a running gun battle with the NVA.
This was a man in his 50's who wanted it so badly he agreed to go out under the command of a middle-grade enlisted soldier that was known to take risks and love getting into firefights. He didn't have to do that,and wasn't even supposed to do that,but he did it anyhow BECAUSE he was a soldier,and fighting in wars is what soldiers do.