It’s very politically convenient to confuse the veterans who endangered (or gave up) their lives to serve in the military with the military-industrial complex and the hawkish political factions.
The military wants smarter bombs to drop inconvenient people or even better autonomous drones that kill without remorse and convenient button to clear the history.
oh the nerve, the cheek, the gall...
and it's also paywalled... so, let's avoid enriching the worlds richest man any further, shall we?
re: nerve cheek gall = the 717 billion dollar leech that sells fear and trades in boots-on-the-ground vs dead-locals erm 'collateral damage' could stand to ditch it's entrepreneurial approach to global corporate empire and perhaps consider scaling back, vs bankrupting it's host or openly admitting it's mercenary nature...
...to say nothing of wars on emotions that result in being stuck in afghanistan over a decade and a half later to the cumulative tune of roughly 5-7 trillion dollars in loans called appropriations that are still getting kicked down the road like a rusty can, but I digress...