As if the cost of carrying out the wrong call isn't too high either? The worst case isn't that soldiers' time is squandered or that they risk their lives over

As if the cost of carrying out the wrong call isn't too high either? The worst case isn't that soldiers' time is squandered or that they risk their lives over nothing worthy, it's that they kill and destroy needlessly, but I guess we don't really tend to come to terms with that fact as well as the people we're fighting.