The transgender twitter announcement wasn’t actually an order, though. We’ll see everyone fall in line once they’re given actual policy - or at least they’ll follow the orders, even if they push back against them. More specifically, when it comes to the use of force and nuclear weapons, those who have been asked have confirmed that they’d obey orders:
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No, the problem is, they’re only not obligated (aren’t allowed, in fact) to follow an order that is later determined to be unlawful. Their beliefs are irrelevant. The fundamental problem is, to actually fail to obey lawful orders is also a crime. It’s the terrible catch-22 that soldiers are constrained by - failure to obey a lawful order is a crime, following an unlawful order is a crime. More soldiers get prosecuted for failing to obey orders they believe are illegal than for obeying illegal ones. (Which makes sense - an army doesn’t work if soldiers refuse to follow orders.) Soldiers aren’t lawyers, and who decides what crimes get prosecuted is based on who wins out, politically, after the conflict. To add to that, the scale of the crime makes it less likely to be prosecuted. Following the order to “shoot that old man” might get you prosecuted, but “drop cluster bombs on this densely populated residential neighborhood” never has. There’s nothing inherently illegal about an order to bomb North Korea, either.
