Using "oppressive" in its proper sociological sense, can war be considered oppressive of men _as men_?

Many men and women point to “war” as one way in which the patriarchy oppresses men. Yet Allan Johnson writes in his essay “Patriarchy” in _The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy_ that men cannot be “oppressed,” in the correct definition of the word, by their own patriarchy because a group cannot oppress itself. Although men certainly suffer under the patriarchal system, this suffering cannot be termed “oppression”: “A group can inflict injury on itself, and its members can suffer from their position in society. But if we say that a group can oppress or persecute _itself_ we turn the concept of social oppression into a mere synonym for socially caused suffering, which it isn’t. Oppression is a social phenomenon that happens between different groups in a society; it is a system of social inequality through which one group is positioned to dominate and benefit from the exploitation and subordination of another." (cont.)