Comment No they're not (Score 4, Informative) 163
They say they want creative soldiers, but they will not achieve this.
The minute they join recruit school, they will have all creativeness beaten out of their brains. The only way to do things correctly in the military is to follow a procedure.
By the time they are in a position of making a decision to use their creativity, they are too old and now there is 8 ranks beneath and 2 above them acting to inhibit their creativity.
It won't happen.