Terry you know Edward Bernays, was Sigmond Freud double nephew who learn a lot about basic unconscious drives we have from his uncle and made a fortune giving advice to corporations and our government about how to get people to do what you want. The vague term:" Fighting for Freedom" was his propaganda idea for the US.
Government gotta do what they gotta do to control people and as long as humankind has an aggressive state that predominates the world so the need to stay militarized,, I wonder what type of impact a fighting AI army will make on the need for a human army to fight and saying the pledge in the future?