M not sure if your assignment is looking for a specific answer but usually a colony has a better view on military skills/tactics because they have less men to train and they get more 1 on 1 time with the instructor. They are also smaller so they can infiltrate things without making a big deal out of it and also the mother country can have the colony do a mission without the mother country taking the fall (penalties) for the attack.
It shows that people will listen to authority to extreme extents it’s a part of social culture we are told to obey authority so we do. Even if it means hurting other people bc they told us to and we should listen to them
