Only a Pawn in Their Game Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SomethingClever 

Cover art for Only a Pawn in Their Game lyrics by Bob Dylan

The song refers to the murder of Medgar Evers, who was the Mississippi leader of the NAACP. He was killed by a poor white man. I kknow the song is about a spefic story but it makes me think of solders as pawns in the game of LIFE played by the worlds leaders.