A couple of things.  For one, the motivations, constraints, and goals of a software development team (or the vast majority of business units, for that matter) are clearly quite different from those of military units.  For another, that same culture which you are praising to the rafters (that of the U.S. Special Forces) is also famously knowing for producing colossally obscene fuckups -- of which on one in particular<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kunduz_hospital_airstrike" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Kunduz_hospital_airstrike</a><p>may, in just 45 minutes, very well have undone all the putative good the U.S. and its allies were trying to accomplish in all of their 14 years in Afghanistan.<p>So on balance it seems that the culture of elite U.S. military unites is something to be shunned and avoided in civilian contexts, rather than followed and replicated.