What is the conundrum? If you don't support the elite and you feel they don't support you, don't take the low reward high risk task of fighting their wars? I d

What is the conundrum? If you don't support the elite and you feel they don't support you, don't take the low reward high risk task of fighting their wars? I don't see where the theoreticcal need for protecting society by military force enters the picture. Especially since the last wars have been nothing about defending yourself. The next one will be righteus and unavoidable? I am not arguing against having a community that people would be willing to defend. I argue that if the elite is bad enough you make things worse by fighting for them.