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Commit war crimes? Presidential pardon.
Leak to protect your men when no one else will? You're out https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1246065155605237764
Leak to protect your men when no one else will? You're out https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1246065155605237764
In fairness, the Navy has no control over the first item. But its impossible not to make this contrast and you should remember it when you hear about discipline problems down the line.
People respond to incentives. The incentives being set are sadly quite stark.
Organizations must punish disobedience, but they can also selectively show that some kinds of disobedience are understandable and to be given leniency. These signals are interpreted by people within the organization.
The President intervened to grant leniency to people who disobeyed military codes of honor and the binding power of law and regulation, and who did so out of fear, revenge, bloodlust, and the desire to humiliate and degrade those under their power https://warontherocks.com/2019/12/war-crime-pardons-and-what-they-mean-for-the-military/
Crozier defied proper lines of authority when he felt nothing else would allow him to fulfill his duty to the people under his command, who depended on him for their health and safety, in the middle of a generalized failure by institutions to act. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/490892-aircraft-carrier-captain-to-be-removed-from-duty-after-pleading-for-help-with
These are two distinct kinds of disobedience, one borne from the individual pride and rage of a kind of premodern champion accountable to nothing and the other from the clash between the need to fulfill one's duty and the impossibility of doing so without disobedience
One form of disobedience at least acknowledges a higher, compelling control on individual behavior in keeping with the spirit of the organization's values if not the letter of its laws. And it happened to be the one that was punished.
Unfortunately, it is the nature of the times that people will learn from what is rewarded and punished and act accordingly. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1246072716433559566
