A soldier reflects on what frustrated him most in the military: orders without explanation. He argues that understanding the reasoning behind decisions matters more than just following commands.
One of the most frustrating things that happened to me when I was in the military is that we would be told that something was being done. They go, okay, everyone has to do this now, and at no stage would they ever give us any context. That's fine for some things. However, when you're constantly being asked to do things and never given any context as to why, you start to resent the people above you. You're looking at things on a day to day tactical level, and then you end up with like, oh, it's so easy. Why doesn't the boss just do this? It's like, well, they probably considered that. However, they're getting a lot more inputs. So it's important that you, at least to some degree, rationalize why you're making some of the decisions that you're making, especially if they negatively hit other people.
