Agreed. That has actually been publicly suggested, and supported, by a retired general:

" Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our ship-builders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted — to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get."

in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

Edit: corrected "general's number of stars"