If you want to point to misaligned incentives, I don't think a conscript army like Russia's is a good counterexample. In fact, they're probably the prime example of how misaligned incentives makes an organization less effective.
In the meantime, I think we should focus on helping our government better & more efficiently serve the people in America...rather than flooding the world with weapons, publically lecturing about "values" while privately destabilizing governments abroad & arming genocidal maniacs & Banderite Nazis...while disproportionately enriching select contractors & politically entrenched institutions.