Only congressmen with active military family members are eligible to vote to approve war or military conflict. Their family members may not be exempt from going to war or any military conflict.
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I would be willing to extend this to former active military members
This would require that even under ideal circumstances, you would need at least a number of congressmen in office who have active military family members as are required to vote for war. Otherwise, the US would never be able to declare war, even when a foreign nation declares war on the US first.
If the military has no representation in Congress, then Congress ought not be able to vote for war. It’s not a bug but a feature.
Seeing as this was auto-bumped (however that works), the ultimate point still stands.
By requiring that an individual can not vote for war unless that individual has a family member that is in the military, the United States would not be able to vote for war under any circumstances - even if another nation attacked the United States - unless at least a majority of people in Congress had family members in the military. Under such circumstances, the US would be rendered a de facto Pacifist nation.
That goes way beyond ‘the Military needs to be represented in Congress’.