You make some fair points. Q did say that shills come in many forms. Given Q's response to that post, I took it to be a challenge to the CIA. The military has been doing a lot of cleanup in the middle east of CIA owned and operated networks. It's something of an open secret that the U.S. Military has been at war with the CIA for quite some time.
It's a sort of cultural or genetic difference between the organizations - knights or soldiers versus assassins. Two very different philosophies on how to take an opponent, and the assassins lost control of their own ninjutsu - if they even had control over it to begin with or desire to control it in the first place.
That is the shadow war. The war between the military and the clandestine agencies which have expanded so far beyond their official capacities that they are beholden to neither nation nor creed.