When I was in the Army, in Townsville, I recall a battle that played out within the Australian Military. I say a battle for my own purposes, but they would call it a strategic reassessment.
They were exiting the Vietnam war, where the unexpected became the norm. During that phase, the military found it necessary to fight in unconventional ways, for which they required unconventional soldiers, if that's not an oxymoron.
Once the Vietnam war was over, strategic assessments concluded that type of war was an exception unlikely to be repeated with any anticipated consistency. Thus the Australian Military reverted to Conventional Warfare preparation, which meant the end of opportunity for those kind of people who did not fit with the hierarchical mindset.
You can argue with this, but they were probably correct, or maybe not - it meant a huge shift in capital expenditure, where assets that fitted within the conventional warfare paradigm were purchased - I won't go into that.
What no longer was required, except perhaps within a sub-set of special forces, were the kind of people who thought for themselves - were not geared by character, to accept what higher ranks told them. Curiously, and historically, militaries have always needed such people, but they always caused trouble, despite making good subjects for movies. They are anathema to the primary military mindset.
It's my view, that the bulk of the Australian Military officer core, was very unhappy with the demands of the Vietnam war. So they grasped the opportunity to reassert their conventional world view once that war was over. Because that was their essential nature - conventional.
But they represent the bulk of humanity. The few who buck the system are always a small minority in this world of the White Root Race. The White's all march together - that is their power.
In Iraq the US did the same thing, until it was obviously failing, then with enormous reluctance, they called back in those few irregular mind-set people, who saved the day for them. But within the Military and Society, they were never loved - even the main officer was later damned for having an affair outside his marriage (only in the US could that happen).
For our purposes, it is absolutely essential to belong to that small irregular mind-set group. Don't expect to be loved for it.