soldier is a profession, a job. Working abroad is a thing.

If you think that government can tell people of this particular occupation what to do… Well, good luck telling a heavily armed crowd that they can’t do something. That’s a nice recipe for a coup de tat you got there. Just another cause for unnecessary infighting. Nobody wants that.

Every dictator would tell you that military is the last thing you should piss off

Does that answer your question?

People don’t want to die in a ditch for the interests of some dudes that sit in comfortable chairs and just watch? Those are worldolds