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RE: The South African Border War - Operation Savannah - Battle of Luso
This may be obvious to you, but war is extremely profitable for a small amount of people. If a resource is desired, creating instability in the region is crucial to the war-mongerers.
It's why we celebrate our soldiers back in the US. This is crucial to the narrative that war is needed. If you can get the young to believe that war is glorious, then you can get them to volunteer to sign up and go to war for you.
Unfortunately, it isn't until after they go that they see the true face of the conflict.
Oil.
Yeah, the people profiting from the constant war do not care about the costs paid by the peasants. They use wars as a turn on their world war board game. Nations are just sections of the board, and the resources those sections provide are the incentives.
No one seems to care about war when it is elsewhere. They don't care because it isn't their children being droned. It isn't their loved ones being murdered by artillery. The war isn't in their neighborhood, so they just don't give a damn. Humans, as a species, are quite disgusting as a majority for that reason.
As @crewjohn said, war is very profitable for certain groups of people. It is used to secure resources, steal gold, and change the imaginary lines (borders) between nations (tax farms). Most people have no idea though, or they just don't care. Again, it isn't their children being murdered.
You are right, exploitation of innocent people in order to get an access to their resources is a hidden part of country's policies. There is no doubt that all the soldiers who participate in wars have one agenda in their mind that's Die for the motherland and It's noble to do so but that small amount of people you have mentioned I'll call them elitist who also have one agenda that's to make themselves much stronger than ever even if it needs to take someone's life or land they will go for it.