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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Morton-Thiokol Engineering Claims
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 14:36:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 14:36:13 1986
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> ... In this case, however, it was the commanders-in-chief
> who undertook to carry out a plan which they did not consider effective. The
> engineers were not commanders - they were soldiers...

Note that the quote makes it clear that the "commander-in-chief" that
Napoleon is referring to has at least two levels of superiors above him
who might be actively (if unwisely) involved in the decision.  I think
the analogy holds.

And as for soldiers' obligation to weigh the soundness of the campaign,
Nuremberg and later such courts established very clearly that it *is*
the soldiers' obligation to weigh the *legality* of their orders.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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