Why is this surprising? When people leave the military, they still need jobs. My brother is a veteran, now he's a SWE at Facebook. All large companies have veteran recruiting efforts: https://www.facebook.com/careers/facebook-life/veterans
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Its not surprising. Just might come into play in ways people have not thought about. Like there's been a lot chatter of a military coup online in the last year. Due to Covid, Riots, Election, and mostly China's growing power. If such a scenario were to pass. It will matter which side industry will take. For example, will truckers strike. Its something I did not think about. But having former military at top, makes me think industry will follow military. This is not totally hypothetical. Like even as recently as last week this topic has been on CNN.
That chatter is mostly from people outside the military, the military itself is not inclined to coup in the US. It goes against what it stands for, it's also almost guaranteed to fail in any meaningful sense. The military itself would become disbanded in the process and it would mean not just the end of the nation at the top (change from democratic republic to military authoritarianism) but a fracturing of the nation itself.
The chatter inside the military is mostly, "How stupid are those asshats that want a coup?"
I mostly agree. But I think most people see it as brief intervention period, and then the military would be restoring political democracy. I personally don't think it would be positive at all for the reasons you mentioned. But also life would lost for sure. Though I do think if the riots continued last year, at some point military would have stepped in.
However, I remember when the US early in the pandemic ran out of masks, since the masks were manufactured in China and was telling its people masks were not necessary, to preserve supplies for healthcare workers. Recently the chip shortages are causing car manufacturing to grind to a halt.
Is the US military anything without industry? Seems to me like almost under all scenarios, US military success, is heavily based on US industry's ability to supply its weapons and logistical needs. With politicians behind outsourcing so much to China, can the US even sustain any direct conflict. Seems to me, that diminishing industrial capability has to be a giant sore point for the military. Especially when there are money trails of some politicians accepting money from China.
Who are these "most people"?
The military would not have "stepped in" under its own accord. It may have been called in (probably in the form of the state national guards).
If so many former military officers are positioning themselves so well in industry to effect this coup, maybe they could also step in and restore a larger portion of US manufacturing and sidestep the issue of your last paragraph. It would certainly be easier than destroying a country.