I know a few military people both existing and past, in New Zealand, and also have had some exposure as an 'elite waiter' in UK in 2014 being amongst British Generals, and so forth ( read blog post 'Royal Legion wants to rewrite history here ). My mum's dad was a Filipino General (Rest in Peace), and so forth. I'm no military expert, but I have come across enough people I know in person, and heard enough of THEIR stories that I'm starting to build a picture a bit. I see the military as the 'mafia henchmen' of the governments. They do the dirty work. Sure governments can ALSO contract out to other agencies such as merceneries who just collect a paycheck. But it's all contracted under umbrella companies with nice sounding names, to hide the real entity and agenda of that agency. And in the end the government is clean handed from the real dirty work. So in the past wars, pre-internet age, military was mostly boots on the ground, with main telecommuni