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by ARandomerDude 1061 days ago
I can’t find the exact quote now but I once heard David Petraeus say something like:

“The greatest myth civilians believe about the military is that you can just bark orders and people will follow them. The greatest myth the military believes about civilians is that you can just fire anyone at any time.”

Now that I have been both a corporate software developer and a military officer, I’d say he was right.