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Or, the commander thinks that in an age of drones and cruise missles, bayonet charges don't make sense even if the bayonet is now attached to a machine gun.

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And then the commander goes all in on that strategy, enemies knock out communication networks / find a drone counter measure, and now enemies have a decided advantages because they kept bayonets on their machine guns.

Aren't soldiers typically issued submachine guns? (That's what SMG is short for, isn't it?)

I think they might have been going for the ludicrous image of sticking a bayonette onto the front of a fixed gun emplacement.

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