And who cares, Mudzin? Really. If it is meant to be shown off, who is going to look at it in awe at your entire instruments of death that you possess by using all those tax money from your puny economy?
All third-world nations are busy doing that, teaching it to the kids, telling the backward-minded people that it is "positive" and "morally sound".
Nobody remembers Casimir III the Great who protected the Jews. Everybody remembers Napoleon who kill thousands to realise his ambition. In today's world, nobody can be coerced into admiring a nation by having an extravagant display of force, how much death they could cause, how we should be fearful (and helplessly hateful) towards them. We were taught to remember our "great people" who murdered people of other nations. It was all blood, peril, and murder we celebrate. Everybody complained about violence in media, yet this was okay. And you criticise some religious fanatics for glorifying violence?
I began to question, what separates the people of Europe & North America from the rest of the world? Surely it isn't money. Because China, Korea, and Japan has money. But they don't get it, probably yet.
A proper first or second world nation displays positive modern nationalism by showing how much its people love their country. With all of its pomps and circumstances, the Brits wins my heart. Hands down. No guns, no uniforms, no need for massive rehearsal taxing the people, no need for posing for the camera. Just regular several grand quid-paying audience who probably put all of their savings so they can rhyme with the others "...Make Thee Mightier Yet!"
I admire death-defying positive courage, like those football fans singing "La Marseillaise" together in the exit hallway in the wake of terror. You can see immigrants, black people, all singing their anthems defiantly. It worth much more than goose-stepping parade, nuclear ICBM-touting 10,000 men parade People's Republic of China, Korea, or other backward nations are proudly pulling. The obviously fake-rehearsed-smile of the audiences made for TV doesn't cut it, only for the regimes and people who pay for it. And denying, erasing your record book won't make me admire your nation even more. Nobody expect someone to be 100% perfect, blemish-free. To see people genuinely holding hand with his fellows, immigrants or native born, for common bond they share, makes me want to join them, celebrating their national identity they proudly uphold even in difficult moments.
This is why some people want to emigrate to your country.