In their heart of hearts, the military is a totalitarian maid service. But war is messier than the morning after a rock concert. On battlefields, everything is everywhere. Firing a mortar produces more trash than eating a McDonald's hamburger. It's everybody's mother's worst nightmare.
Soldiers are totally unsuited to war.
The ideal soldier is a teenage computer nerd. Look at his room and you'll see why. Chaos actually relaxes them. MIT did a study on it. They put a nerd in an empty room with white walls.