I rather disagree with this, least of all the conclusion that there do not exist honorable soldiers. There are several other parts to this which, taken alone, a

I rather disagree with this, least of all the conclusion that there do not exist honorable soldiers. There are several other parts to this which, taken alone, also fail to ring true. The blanket assertion that humans aren't meant to kill other humans is pretty well debunked by thousands of years of bloody history--our current trends and wants notwithstanding. The characterization of people willingly submitting themselves into the hierarchy of the military as weak-willed is somewhat poor as well: that same critique basically is admissible against anyone serving in government or a corporation (indeed, the entire notion of a company derives from the compaignie of European history). I think David Drake had perhaps the most useful thing to say about the men and women serving on the sharp end: basically, whenever you deploy a soldier with a weapon someplace, you create a policymaker--and if you are concerned about what sort of policies they'll be making, the time to do something about it is before you send them out.