>>The average user doesn't care if it's a virus, worm, trojan, or whatever. All affect their computer.
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>That's not what I got accustomed to while in the US. People (aka the language users) want you to be specific - whenever I mentioned the army, someone would ask about navy, airforce and marines. Must be it's because of a lack of a common noun for armed forces. "The military" is not a noun, just like "musical" isn't, it's an adjective (which is also an adjective :). There should be a default but omitted noun, just like we say Češka, Poljska and Turska for Czech, Poland and Turkey - all of them adjectives, but with an assumed noun (country) to them. Somehow I expect "the military" to be a plural, just like "the poor".

Soldiers?

I don't actually have a problem with "the military" as a collective noun there.