It's a bit of a Maslow's Hammer situation: if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail; if you spent a significant amount of time as a soldier, you might tend to look at a wide range of problems as things that can be solved by war. Perhaps it can even give someone a feeling of purpose to think that the major events and sacrifices of their own life are something that could fix a lot of the world's problems today.
(Not suggesting such a perspective is common among veterans, just that this might be what's going on here.)
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