The real question of war is whether it's going to be TSA security theatre designed by lawyers and bureaucrats to PREVENT masculine soldiers from winning, OR whether the dogs in the American military will be let off the leash. If the American military was allowed to win, you would see a big change in social perception. Young ambitious men from Harvard would be joining Special Forces instead of going to Wall Street or Silicon Valley, because combat would be viewed as the fastest path to celebrity. Again, this is completely alien, unimaginable to modern mind. But from Julius Caesar to George Washington to Andrew Jackson, war was viewed as best path to chase selfish ambition. Crassus was richest man in Rome, and he still started a dumb war with Parthia to gain power. Imagine Elon Musk hiring a private army of one million American incels to colonize Rwanda without government approval, and you will start to understand the traditional perception of war.

Why is the 17th century so underrepresented in popular media, despite being one of the most "things happening" century of all?