Although that certainly does not negate the possibility of such expertise.
Government authority is immediately downgraded when they confess that truth.
Government. Or the mouth of government aka MSM.
Do the military answer to the people?
A higher authority is recognized.
Why should any people follow an utterly corrupted political body with purpose of gathering more power and wealth for itself?
Congress declares war. The president is commander in chief of military, and marines directly.
True enough.
There are certainly parties in military that know. There are also many deaths by strange accidents and a number of difficult to explain suicides.