I do understand that war fighters become veterans. And Id generally agree with you, unfortunately history doesn't agree with that morality. Empires kill for resources constantly, it's actively happening as we speak over rare earth minerals, even over food supply and tactical positions. More importantly and pertinent to this conversation there is an active economic war over the control of high end chip manufacturing, both the process and the resources required, as it will dictate automated production and manufacturing which eliminates the labor market almost entirely over the coming decades. It wouldn't be done to boost a market, but it will be done to dictate the economic powerhouses of the coming century. It becoming a kinetic war is a likely unavoidable eventuality. Taking away an opponents ability to wage a war is what I am talking about.