Many times I finished giving advice and said, “But you’re the commander...”. On a few occasions I had to say, “Sir, you need to understand that the Air Force is my client, not you personally.” That was normally when the boss had just finished saying “This is what I’m gonna do, make it legal.”
Roger that. Akin to let’s make 60% crypto intelligibility acceptable to a forward observer calling in artillery to close quarters. I finally had to say no more and walked away from a promising career if I played ball. Not on my conscience. So I went off and made my own promising future.