Why aren’t people rushing to commit war crimes for senile Caligula?

And if those benefits were provided to everyone, they'd have an even harder time. The people who want to cut social spending are the same ones who want to spend trillions on useless wars, and they need people to be desperate enough to sign up to be cannon fodder for the billionaire war mongers to make money off of.

Mostly because those benefits have been constantly under attack by the people most of the usual recruiting pool tends to vote for.

We'll give you everything if you go die somewhere far, over bullshit reasons made up by people who've avoided service apparently isn't as appealing.