Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
You must accept responsibility for your actions but not the credit for your...
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent encourage going along and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.