The "Non-Charedi" Argument against IDF service

I’ve written countless posts (many indexed here) refuting various charedi arguments against army service. Many of them involve alleged Torah sources that turn out to be completely misinterpreted (and at the end of this post you can freely download the latest edition of Emes Ne’ederes, an English work by R. Moshe Klausner which goes through each source). Some arguments involve a claim about “Torah protecting,” which can be shown to not only have zero basis in classical Judaism, but also something...