Do you actually think soldiers have the right to refuse an order?

Answer 1

They have the right to refuse orders, and the right to be court-martialled for doing so.

Answer 2

I think that solders are denied the right to refuse an order

Sometimes soldiers are put in a difficult place. You are told to follow orders but sometimes your chain of command is dead wrong. If you show that you believe your chain of command is wrong you become labeled a trouble maker even though you may have done the right thing. This is not a fun label to have because from then on everything you do is wrong and brownnosers will watch for any mistakes.
You aren't allow to disobey an order yet at the same time you can get in legal trouble for following bad orders.

Answer 3

I just recently got out of the service, so I think I can help you with this question... You can always, refuse to do something it's part of your free will, but in the Military you may risk getting into trouble. Soldiers you refuse to take orders could go to an NJP (Non Judicial Punishment) and there you could get reduction in rake, lose some of your pay, and even go on restriction for several months. Which is where you would basically lose all contact with your family, friends, and you would have to live in barracks and pick up trash and do all sorts of stupid tasks.

Answer 4

Every soldier has the right to refuse to obey an unlawful order, but most have the common sense to know that a right is rarely something you can actually exercise.

Even generals will find themselves with orders that they do not want to obey, but do anyway. Consider the Confederates at the Battle of Franklin. All of the Divisional Generals knew that Hood's order to frontally assault the works at Franklin would lead to the slaugher of the Army of Tennessee. And yet, instead of standing up to Hood and disobeying his idiotic order, they obeyed and sent over 1500 men to their deaths.

History is full of this stuff from Gallipoli to the Somme to Verdun to Vietnam to the Holocaust. Soldiers just following orders.....

Answer 5

well that depends on the order and who it is given by. Someone with the same rank as them should only be allowed to give them a suggestion on what they should be doing unless that person is given a direct order by someone with higher rank. If the order is inappropriate and the person who gives the order to that person is just telling them to do that so they can abuse their rank and use it to seem more superior to the order given to the lower rank, that person should have every right to refuse it. I never refuse orders from rank higher then me, but sometimes they give me absoultley stupid orders that are irrelevent to the situation, then i refuse them.

Answer 6

Yes. If the order was something along the line of " go and kill those un armed people, and children." If the order was something that went against the morality of the home country It should be refused.

Answer 7

Only if it is an unlawfull order and they had better have a general or two on their side. I guess that everyone has the right to dis-obey an order, but in the miltary you had better be ready to accept an article 15 at the minimum or the stockade at the worst if you do.

Answer 8

Not in this country. You sign the dotted line when sold your behind. Best of luck for any soldier who tries to refuse.

Answer 9

The problem is when a higher up says "clear the village" and you "clear" the village, you get charged w murder like some fool, when you were following orders. the person who gave the order but didn't participate in the action is long gone.

Answer 10

NO they can`t refuse an order