> Subordination is a key component to an effective military force. In order for commanders to maximize their units’ effectiveness on the battlefield, their subordinates must execute their orders fully and without delay.

It's a leader's job to establish credibility and to protect morale in order to ensure that troops are responsive to commands. This article's focus on the soldier's insubordination rather than their own baseness is tone-deaf and lacks any sort of self reflection.

It's clear that masking young, healthy adults who are tasked with the responsibility of rushing into oncoming bullets and missiles if need be, to mask themselves for going on now well into our third year of covid, which was never a particular threat for young people, is bad for morale. It's absurd and non-sensical.

Meanwhile the dark tone set by the title and the subsequent remedies proposed make me more concerned than I've perhaps ever been about the direction our armed forces are under.