Has modern culture lost touch with the warrior ideal?

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A hunter is one who provides. A warrior takes what is not his by force.

Compassion should extend only to one's people/tribe and those one's people/tribe take under their wing or are taken under the wing of. Any sense of compassion beyond that is unreasonable and foolish and weakens the soul and mind. Over-extensive compassion causes the spirit to become lazy and unfit to continue to survive without some kind of crutch for support.
How one can't be inspired by tales of battle is something I fail to understand: ancient sagas that tell of sweeping, stirring wars, of men against men, and men against gods and spirits, of gods against giants and demons, and all of these tales lend a valuable cultural archetype, of those who defend and those who rebel and those who undertake the honorable task of, as has been said, "taking by force what is not theirs," which is something that takes a lot of courage. Most are too cowardly to take what isn't theirs, yet the Norsemen of old had the courage to take the treasure and property and women and of the English and Irish by force, and would risk their lives and shed gallons of red to do so. That's something you have to admire. Yet the tales of warriors, both true and false, are now treated the same way a backwoods midwestern farmer with no indoor plumbing would have treated the latest issue of the Sears-Roebuck catalogue: as toilet paper. Just imagine how different the world would be if the United States had not been under the leadership of a man who was willing to help the other Allied powers defeat Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini, or what would have happened if the south had been allowed to secede from the Union and continue the practice of keeping and abusing slaves.

I'd say those applications of brutality have done more honor to humanity than can possibly even be imagined.

Has it?
It seems that historically, among ancient and medieval European and Asian cultures and a number of Native American cultures it was seen as respectable and honorable to stand up for and defend what you believed in, not by marching around holding up signs and shouting bland slogans, but by breaking enemy ranks and slaying foes, even as recently as World War II.
However, it seems like post-Vietnam modern culture seems to have lost touch with the idea of the honorable warrior, and with that archetype blatantly trampled and spat upon by self-professed peace activists, who want us to deny and hate our history, an important archetype is missing from our collective cultural consciousness, and that seems to bespeak a tragic lack in the stories and concepts that inspire us as human beings.