There are orders and they must be observed. Take a command general, chief of staff and intelligence chief. All of them were dismissed after the Yom Kippur war. It was an earthquake. They had to cope with this.
People have to treat it as a profession.
But it is a unique profession that is done because of what is beyond it. That's why the people are the best in the country. There are professional parameters to maintain the qualitative edge. Acquiring planes is part of the qualitative edge along with acquiring other systems that I don't want to elaborate on. The US is committed to this not only in words but in deeds.