If Barak trained the IDF to fight terror and wars instead of wasting it’s time on political police-related activities, which cause soldiers to refuse orders, challenge authority, and confuse the IDF from it’s real mandate of protecting the country — then the IDF would be in better shape.

A single brigade commander, he explained, lacks a clear picture of the entire front, and must therefore act on the assumption that his superiors have good reason for their orders.

The problem is that it has become obvious that hte civilians giving the orders at the top do not “have good reasons for their orders”. When the soldiers see idiocy, it harms the mission capability.