I was a conscript in the German army and there the emphasis is definitely not put on creating soldiers that follow orders mindlessly. The way the German army is

I was a conscript in the German army and there the emphasis is definitely not put on creating soldiers that follow orders mindlessly. The way the German army is organized allows (and to some extent demands) that soldiers get a degree of freedom about how to arrived at their set goals (in contrast to micromanagement by commanding officers). Attached to that is a responsibility for every soldier to recognize unlawful orders and disobey them.