<human>: Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?

It seems like every fictional movie/novel about military forces includes a section like this:

In a big important battle, the leadership opts for a completely, comically stupid plan (such as, "Lets all walk single-file up to the machine gun emplacement until we bury them in our corpses!"). Inevitably, the protagonist finds the much cleverer, but also fairly obvious, alternate plan ("Nah, lets use this secret tunnel to throw grenades into their pill box"), convinces some of his fellow men to defy orders, and saves the day. Then, despite the obvious stupidity of the leadership, and the massive success of the protagonist's alternate plan, the protagonist is punished for insubordination, though everyone supports him anyway.
<bot>: I'm sure there are disagreements about the best battle plan, but military leadership can't really be *that comically stupid*... can they?