I believe it is correct to check with brave ex or current service members, however those in service often suffer the same propaganda diet that regular societies do. This is as true for Afghans, Taliban, Japanese, North Koreans as it is for Russians and Americans. Misinformation is not career specific, it is a disease spread by the few in higher positions to dictate information or provide it through their lackey 'news' creators.

Here's one. While the Japanese government was actively seeking peace, the race to explore the mass effectiveness of Napalm on hundreds of thousands of civilians (in wooden tinder cites), coupled with the use of two nuclear bombs on densely populated civilian cities (surrounded by hills to maximize effect), the leader chose to obliterate (because of America's huge financial investment) and then spin the propaganda machine and brush aside the indiscriminate deaths as a necessity to shorten the war??

Kill faster, kill children -- don't listen to peace overtures.

The Japanese were requesting peace negotiations for months.

Nah... nuk 'em, burn 'em then we'll spin the propaganda machine to say it was a faster way to end the war by erasing women and children.

Propaganda is a multinational disease dis-ease.

Further check you facts on the volunteer Indian army, twice that of America.