As for the impact of distressed soldiers upon civil society, I think you'll find that polticians don't live there either. Although we dumb schmucks imagine that, in a democracy, we employ polticians; their attitude is very different. They are above us and we are merely pawns in their games to be gamed and misled, but otherwise keep quiet. keep to the Fen Causeway
In this, Irael is worth emulating, but i think most people would prefer their militaries weren't involved in the sort of politically expedient aggressions the West seems to increasingly favour these days. After all, it's a hard sell to say your son died "so's X could get elected" or "Y could get a milllion euro dividend bonus" keep to the Fen Causeway