That's absurd. The advent of nuclear missiles ensures that technology, not people, is the primary determinate of global or national destruction from military activities. Back when it was conventional weapons, to a degree that was true. Today, everything is to a degree, moot. Strategy, almost irrelveant. People, almost irrelevant.
In fact, I think we understand that even if we were hit with a first strike and everyone in the U.S. was dead, our own missile silos would launch automatically. Talking about damning evidence against your assertion right?
The world is different now. Political power, and economic power, once a nation has a nuclear aresenal, is where the game is played. The biggest danger to citizens is consolidation of government authority, or private authority. Government historically has been the worst, the most common, and nearly always linked to any bad actor private authorities anyway. That's why government growth is the primary way U.S. citizens can "fight the good fight".