If you want to run experiments on soldiers, then run them on soldiers. If you're trying to prove a more general point, you do have to be much more careful. Aft

If you want to run experiments on soldiers, then run them on soldiers. If you're trying to prove a more general point, you do have to be much more careful. After all, if you do train your subjects to be soldiers or to blindly follow orders this does not prove the general point anymore. If you additionally filter your experimental group (as typicalsoldier training does) then the point is even less general. So you're missing the point. Now, a study on how effective military training is at instilling blind obedience is still very useful and important.