The Domino Theory was pushed for years to do with SE Asia. Also, the person who said that thing you couldn't be arsed to look up was Clausewitz in his book 'On War'. Many of us have been in the military, and your suggestion that if people don't agree with you they should hang their heads in shame is utter bullshit. Make all the excuses you want, but a military's place is at home. And if all militaries followed that simple statement, there would be NO invading armies.

"Soldiers do not die for money - they die for you and to preserve your way of life."

They die for each other, not for God, Mother and Apple Pie. That soldiers die for money is true, at least so far as they don't get the money. But sure as hell many industries have flourished and continue to grow because they make the bucks, and there are something like 17,000 lobbyists in Washington to make sure the right contractors get the lucrative jobs. Don't say it ain't so, Joe, because it is so and has been for over a hundred years.