Debate about level of frumkeit in IDF is a separate issue……
You can’t separate it at all.
Let’s see an army run completely al pi Torah and then we can talk.
Meanwhile, it’s a spiritual minefield with many casualties.
sharing the burden.
That goes both ways…. When the spiritual burden falls on everyone, and everyone keeps the Torah and learns, we can talk about sharing the burden of defense.
You simply can’t argue from an era where so many important factors were so different and say we should do what they did.
Maybe we should use spears instead of jet fighters?