DY: That logical response, however, rings just a little false when there are things like yesterday’s Atzeres. If the opinion actually is that Torah protects better than anything else, why ever stop learning to gather and Daven (or protest, in other situations)? Learning should be a better defense. Or, in previous wars, when sirens went off people ran to bunkers, not staying learning.
I don’t mean this disrespectfully. I’m just saying that when push comes to shove, it seems that many, many people don’t really believe that the Torah protects them better than practicality.
About Frumkeit in the army. Yes, there are major problems. I have long since felt, though, that the more Frum people that join the more Frum the army will become, for obvious reasons.