Having found yourself in a war...

Well, firstly, regarding wars.

Let's imagine you find yourself in a war (either the 1st or the 2nd, whichever you prefer).

I was considering exactly such a scale. And what you brought up, excuse me, is insignificant. Yes, it's a war, no matter how you look at it. Yes, people die there too. But for such wars, they don't necessarily announce a mandatory-additional draft, and they don't call up reservists; the regular army and volunteers are enough. Similar wars happen regularly in the world, and Russia is not exempt from them, regardless of who the aggressor is. But our country is too large to mobilize completely for such a conflict. Therefore, I may not participate in this case; the choice remains with me. That's what I meant by my words.

Well, if a bomber pilot is ordered to bomb the civilian population, then infantry and tank crews will also be ordered to shoot at the civilian population, so the job has nothing to do with it...

But you're wrong about that. Such orders will not be given to the infantry. Those who want to will shoot on their own, and those who refuse will not be forced to, because they are infantry. They are already expendable, and there is always a special attitude towards them. And a commander who gives such orders risks being shot on the spot by his own soldiers, or simply losing a significant portion of the soldiers under his command, and he can't do anything about it. Such tasks are always given only to those who agree to them; the others are left alone. And giving such an order to tank crews is foolish. They have a different task in battle, and ordering them to shoot at the civilian population is, firstly, a waste of expensive ammunition, and secondly, it's like ordering them to kill a dung beetle with an RPG.

And in Afghanistan, troops were deployed to "stabilize the situation in the country," were they trying not to fall behind the USA?

Yes, that's right. That's exactly what it was. If you've heard of the "Cold War."

The task of a bomber consists of ninety percent of bombing civilian rear areas.

By the way, yes. +1.