I am sympathetic to the view that senior officers shouldn't always be held accountable for failures in their areas of command. Such an approach can foster risk aversion, micromanagement, lack of empowerment, threats of collective punishment, and other undesirable leadership and management practices. In this case, however, it seems fair to comment on an apparent lack of curiosity in regard to unit culture at the sharp end. I thought that the issues encountered in elite units were well understood these days in terms of cultural drift and self-perception as exceptions from the norm, and this might have prompted commanders to take a more active interest.