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You are being too universal, Willravel. You are treating armies as single entities when instead they are made up of individuals. The actions of each individual is what matters here, not the collective action of the group. We could talk about the group, but it would be a difficult approach.
What is at issue is whether an individual act of killing during a war is murder. Well, not everyone in a war is killed under the same circumstances. You're not clear on how we should approach this.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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