The only time the military fights for freedom is when it fights a defensive action against an aggressor
There are a few main motivations for war that pretty much every military conflict can fall into:
Land/Money (either wars over trade conditions or land)
Power (a little harder to define, usually the ability to project your influence but without trying to get land to do it)
Domestic Political Intervention (either intervention in civil war or wars of "regime change" like Iraq 2003)
Support for allies (again entails intervention in civil wars, or just helping allies for the sake of your alliance)
Self-Defense (the rarest type of war, when one country is determined to conquer another outright and the other country fights back)
Ideology (it is rare that wars are fought purely over ideology, though many little wars in the Cold War were more immediately motivated by ideology and only loosely fit into the larger conflict)
Countries always find justifications to frame the above reasons for war into something more palatable for the people, hence propaganda. This is not necessarily a bad thing, though one treads on thin ice in these cases
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