Your argument essentially boils down to "I'm frustrated. We need to do something! The only reason nothing changes is because of our mindset! If only we all made

Your argument essentially boils down to "I'm frustrated. We need to do something! The only reason nothing changes is because of our mindset! If only we all made the same decision I made, we wouldn't have this problem!" But this kind of egalitarian desire, well intentioned as it is, should not be mistaken for an effective mechanism. It does not take very much comparison to see the night and day difference between a low level IC employee at the DoD or a subcontractor, and a high level military chief capable of making executive decisions for a $700B/year war machine. Nor does it take that much thinking to consider that for a lot of poor folks, the military is one of the few options remaining for them to be able to afford an education, a calling, a social circle, and a sense of structure and purpose in the modern world. If you want to more insightfully analyze what enables this Leviathan to perpetuate, perhaps you should take a look at the nonlinear systemic factors involved rather than reducing things to a naive linear sum of individual actions.