Really? What other use cases are there for a military?

> It is based on multitudes of studies in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, evolutionary anthropology, and the like.

In other words, no, you have no personal experience to back up your claims. You should not presume to speak of what you do not know.

As for the "cult" accusation, historially, militaries that work like cults do not win wars. Militaries that win wars have esprit de corps, but that is not the same as a cult. A cult has no objective purpose outside the people who run it. A military does--or at least, a military that can actually win wars does.