The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.
Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.
"Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.