This is why we should be clear about the nature of war and the struggle against it. All this has a larger lesson for those who want a new society. The working class cannot directly mold the form that its oppression takes. The ruling class decides whether it goes to war. Modern war is not a different order.
War is simply the apex of the modern order.
Working people who normally have little real control over their lives are put into an even more controlled factory like condition. The defeat of today is people simply going on, simply accepting the order of the day. Computerized manufacturing and control creates a world where every worker contributes something to the military industrial complex. And many don't know how much they contribute. A computer keyboard can go equally easily into an office or a tank.