Yep. In fact, it feels to me as if you are softening things up quite a bit: sure, glorifying the military is something that every country (read as "government")

Yep. In fact, it feels to me as if you are softening things up quite a bit: sure, glorifying the military is something that every country (read as "government") tries to do, but I don't really know any modern example other than USA, where people actually buy this bullshit. Which is kinda surreal, because, let's be honest: there is absolutely nothing honourable about [strike]serving[/strike] working in the military. It's not even about being a murderer (which everyone working in the military definitely is), it's about signing up (explicitly giving the oath) to follow the orders of other murderers. So it's literally just selling any your moral principles for a quite handsome compensation (in the case of USA, anyway). No, I'm not judging, maybe I would do it myself. I'm just refusing to pretend there's is anything honourable about that.