I am a bit confused; what is your criticism? My only real point is that my job performance is mostly independent from what my superiors incentivize or hope to

I am a bit confused; what is your criticism? My only real point is that my job performance is mostly independent from what my superiors incentivize or hope to see. Imagining myself as a soldier in WWII, I would like to think that I would have been motivated less by whatever my commanders incentivized, and more by the prospect of beating Hitler. Whereas, in Vietnam, I can't see any motivating large-scale goal or purpose. I think that Art Hoppe summed up the prevailing sentiment in his 1971 newspaper column: "I don't give a damn anymore who wins the day." That said, hindsight is 20-20, and my argument is totally hypothetical: I have never been in any situation even remotely similar to war.