In more modern societies, war is an affair as bureaucratic as any other, and so war is perpetuated by the inefficiency of bureaucracy so leviathan that no king can command it to stop. - Kveta Nikolaievna Vamaruchenko, Forever Warrior: Confessions of an International Arms Dealer

The reality of forever wars is even more nightmarish than you describe. The order to assassinate General Qassim Soleimani was drawn up by the O-bomb-a administration, and Trump simply signed off on it because he is far too trusting of the top brass, which he eventually came to regret given that they lied to him constantly. Between chucklefucks like General Milley and Colonel Cringeman, the US military is effectively a rogue entity that only obeys its own commander-in-chief as long as he's willing to adhere to the long-term global destablisation plan that Bush Sr and friends came up with in 1992, because after the collapse of the Soviet Union, no more proxy wars. I should remind you that the USSR only came about in the first place because the international banksters funded the Red Army, which almost no-one knows about because the revolutionary communists completed their takeover of academia back in the 1970s and ever since have been perpetuating the narrative that the CIA is single-handedly responsible for every single socialist government collapsing, which is absolutely laughable given the CIA's track record of failure. That being said, the "intelligence" agencies are the true power centre in the US, so any genuine "president of peace" (I am laughing my arse off at Tulsi Gabbard's simps right now) will not be able to do anything, and considering that most "pacifists" in politics are all gung-ho for waging war at home, this is just the state (pun intended) of things. The RevComs are right when they say "we are not voting our way out of this," and they are not our friends.

"It makes no difference what men think of war," said the judge. "War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way." - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian