[PhasmaFelis]

Does no one at any level of the military (excepting perhaps the Commander-in-Chief) bear any responsibility for the horrors of war?

I would have hoped that the Nuremberg trials had put an end to that line of thinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

[nhfoiwehf]

> Does no one at any level of the military (excepting perhaps the Commander-in-Chief) bear any responsibility for the horrors of war?

Yes, responsibility for the horrors of war. But not the decision to declare war.