The “yeah, I dunno” part is so real. There’s no other way to react really. It is what it is.
(We’re just going to keep making triangles until management can hire different consultants who charge 7 figures to tell us that squares are really what’s needed.)
The way most modern militaries are set up literally coup-proofs them. Your boss is always being rotated to someone else, so you have no undying loyalty to one man.