Have you read The Prince and Art of War by Machiavelli ?
I read The Prince.
Better than reading The Art Of War (not by Machiavelli), learn to play go.
He would disagree with you, and go on to explain how mistreatment of the people makes them uncooperative and less productive.
You have him disagreeing with a point I'm not making.
No people are being mistreated in this issue.
But corpses are being put to use.
(Even Da Vinci mutilated corpses for science too. It's one
reason his paintings are more lifelike than lesser painters.)
Machiavelli never criticized that.
General Curtis Goatheart doesn’t have the grey matter to figure that out.
There are people who don't see the larger picture, or
the wisdom of Machiavelli, or who learn from history.
And they can become generals.
Nonetheless, war happens in an environment of advancing
technology & adaptations to it. To eschew research is to put
oneself at a disadvantage if military conflict arises.
And research is a reason that you too aren't posting auf Deutch.