Army boss in Taliban attacks warning

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Originally Posted by Stealhead

This is true and of course not everyone in the military follows the "party line" some do think out of the box.Of course you can only follow orders.My father told me once that a common method in Vietnam when given a complete idiot order was to "misinterpret" what was said in order to not waste lives pointlessly.

A wise move, I think quite a few lateral thinking soldiers would take a similar route. Of course, sadly, it doesn't always work that way otherwise things at Balaclava would have gone somewhat differently.
As the old saying goes "Theirs was not to reason why..."