Does religion make armies stronger?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

I guess they're primarily fighting for survival. The buddies part may play a role, but that's already a statement made after the action.

Recall the words of Frederick the Great.

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

The ultimate survival motive would be to run away!

When people put on military uniforms they become idiots.  They go roaring off to fight, kill, be killed and injured and they don't get squat for it.  In the meantime the politicians, bankers, and businessmen who whipped them into a war fevor sit back laughing at the fools while getting rich.  And when the dummies return home after being broken and abused they are treated like dirty trash until the next time they are fed a line of BS about they are so special for defending the homeland.