When I retired a few years ago, the Army was arguing about whether it was OK to put an Officer’s tactical mistakes on his OER. They thought that was too harsh. So, you can be a dumbass and lead your unit into an ambush even Stevie Wonder could see coming, and you were fine. Well, as long as you could run two miles in 12 minutes.
The Army is an amazing and resilient institution but I fear that 20+ years of political correctness is wearing it down. Our forces need to be on the border of Mexico NOT Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq (we either need to Win or get out! not fight endlessly and fruitlessly), but you will never hear the toads in DC speak THAT truth to power.
Most of the so called WOT is motivated by liberal idealism and rampant political correctness. This is embodied in the concept of a Dept of Homeland Security. We could better use 100,000 more Marines and Troopers than minimum wage mental midgets groping folks at airports or government drones not protecting our borders then prosecuting states that try to protect themselves when the feds FAILED!!