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  When they cover the part about disobeying orders do they cover Hugh Thompson and the My Lai massacre? Or do they just talk about it in generalities?
context: Sounds to me, it would be better to make the discipline fairer (less corruption and favoritism) instead of harsher. >
  
  
  questioning orders
  
  Especially this part is troublesome in my opinion, soldiers who put their lives on the line should have the right to question orders that sound suicidal or otherwise idiotic and/or dubious. Blind obedience is exactly the thing that makes the Russian army fair so badly, -they're essentially denied the right to use their own judgement on how to achieve their set goal in the field. And now Ukrainian Generals want to do the same? >
  
  We probably need to hear more about the details of the law rather than get it from a newspaper article.  The US has similar laws in place that prohibit troops from disobeying, but exempts it when the order is illegal.  As a veteran myself we were made to understand it as "you can refuse an order, but you'd better be absolutely sure that it's illegal".