I am calling BS on this one to or at least this part on the military. Yeah there's a lot of following orders, but there's also a lot of times in combat and such where you have to rely on your "gut" and you ability to critically evaluate the situation.
One of the most important discourses in the original teachings of Buddhism (before it was made into just another religion) explains that the only truth that is “true” for you is what you have actually experienced. Just because someone you admire tells you something is true, or you read a “truth” in a revered book, these are not “truths” for you. Buddha was referring to the actual experience of liberation from suffering, but the lesson applies to any belief that you haven’t demonstrated to yourself through your own efforts. You may agree with something as a matter of opinion but it should always be tempered with the awareness that this is not “your truth” but someone else’s that may be false.
I think it's clear that there is military service where everyone is needed (a draft for national defense reasons, for example) and there is military service as a career which may involve military action of questionable moral legitimacy (the occasional assault on a weaker state).
There aren't many critical thinkers who would have any interest in the latter.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the author has never been a member of any military organization, nor does she know anyone who has.
I agree. The American military is the only military in the world where a man can disobey an order and get a medal for doing so.