Let’s be completely honest here … Jesus is NEVER the master and commander of any imperialist American military.

Author Chris Rodda has recent an excellent piece regarding America's Recent Military Tradition of Justifying Killing for Christ.

About a year ago, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) began an investigation into just how much money the DoD spends on promoting religion to military personnel and their families.
What prompted this interest in DoD spending on religion was finding out what the DoD was spending on certain individual events and programs, such as the $125 million spent on the Army's Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program and its controversial "Spiritual Fitness" test, a mandatory test that must be taken by all soldiers.
The Army insists that this test is not religious, but the countless complaints from soldiers who have failed this "fitness" test tell a different story. The experience of one group of soldiers who weren't "spiritual" enough for the Army can be read here. But the term "Spiritual Fitness is not limited to this one test. The military began using this term to describe a variety of initiatives and events towards the end of 2006, and this 'code phrase' for promoting religion was heavily in use by all branches of the military by 2007.

Truth be told honestly and with integrity: there is no such thing as a “spiritual fitness” for a war or combat initiated by any nation for other than immediate self defense. The rest is so much self-interested and imperialist blather by human beings who should know better.
There is only silliness in this runaway Evangelical Christian nonsense. No long term socially redeeming value and the self-infliction of notoriety, global distrust and enmity for a religious concept that has no basis in fact.

All of the performers for these Spiritual Fitness concerts so far (this concert series is ongoing) have been evangelical Christian artists. Not only is the music itself overtly Christian, but during the concerts there are light shows of large crosses beamed all over the stage, and the performers typically give their Christian testimony or read Bible verses between songs.

Or this absolutely arrogant assumption that Jesus is not robed, but dressed in camouflage and endorses the limited fundamentalist imaginations of the most removed segment of Christianity.

DoD Funded Evangelical Christian Youth Programs
Service members are not the only ones targeted by evangelical Christian programs paid for with DoD contracts. Military children are also heavily targeted, both here in the U.S. and on bases overseas. Evangelizing the children of service members is one of the largest areas of spending.
The biggest ministry contracted by the DoD to target children is Military Community Youth Ministries (MCYM), whose mission statement is "Celebrate life with military teens, Introduce them to the Life-Giver, Jesus Christ, And help them become more like Him." MCYM has received $12,346,333 in DoD contracts since 2000. One of MCYM's tactics? Stalking "unchurched" military children by following their schools buses.

Or this scheme of religious bribery:

"conversion by temptation," where the military ministries and the military itself tempt young soldiers and military children with fun or exciting things to lure them into participating in programs and events where they can be "saved." What young soldier would pass up a vacation at a resort with their spouse that they could never afford on their military salary?

Whatever this all is … it is not “Christian” in any sense that Christ was Christian.
Nor are we in any way citizens of the world’s greatest country … no so long as we think God will guide our bullets and missiles and protect our holy warriors.