"Do we want them to be well oiled, highly motivated, dedicated hard-core killing machines..." Nope. Anyone who dumps their morality when putting on the uniform of a soldier is unfit to serve. (And before you ask, no I haven't - but I've seen the results on those who do, and what it does to them, never mind what it does to the enemy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1758301.stm)
As for claiming to trace your lineage back to Crusaders, yeah, right...