Failures in leadership are common thing, worldwide, and soldiers only follow standards as long as standards are enforced, and that requires the upper and middle levels of leadership to enforce those standards.
I will give you a hint, Dealing with soldiers from multiple nations they all let things slide and get lazy to some extent, what seperates to powerful armies from the weak is their efforts to keep good discipline and order, and even the best nations will always find bad units, bad individuals etc. For example how do you micromanage commanders and senior nco's when they file reports all the time, how do you know they are not pencil whipping that stuff if you are sitting at hq and reading the numbers on a sheet. The us army found that to actually happen during the gulf war, where units shifted assets and found firearms, helicopters, aircraft etc shipped to kuwait in good order only to find the numbers were fudged and much of it was broke ling before it shipped.
The national guard and reserves were the biggest offenders of that during the gulf war however the problem extended to the active army as well. The result became comet inspections, where they dig through all maintenace, maintenace records, inspect gear for proper repairs, and verify standards are being kept, so there would not be a repeat of the gulf war where we ship out 100 tanks but find out x amount were doa because xyz unit pencil whipped everything and faked the numbers rather than meeting standards.
