I'd say sort of.

Like, many of them are, for they're not the type to have many other choices because of their lack of intelligence.

As well, if they love their country enough to unquestioningly serve the government, risk their lives, and kill others, I'd say that they can't be that bright.

Of course, the ones who enter the military because they are actually big fans of war and strategy and plan on making a career out of it, I'd say that those folks are not stupid at all.

So I'd say about 50%.

War is when the old and bitter trick the young and stupid into killing eachother ~ Nico Bellic, GTA IV

I would also like to refer to Charlie Chaplin's speech in The Last Dictator:

"Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty"

That sums up how I feel about war.

I think "dumbshit" sums up my opinion about that guy.

Really? That's a douche thing to say.

I'm sure he's correct to varying percents. There are a lot of reasons this is not the case I'd imagine in most instances, like if they believe in whatever foreign policy or at least a country's foreign policy as a whole even if not a specific war, or even if they disagree in general, have weighed the options, and decided the reward is worth being used.

To a degree, everyone with a job of any sort is a "pawn" for someone. It's a matter of percpective.

I couldn't agree more. People always saying " but their protecting our country!" When half the time they don't know protecting from what. The soldiers are simply following orders, not even considering if what they're doing is moral or not.