My biggest problem with this movie is that Jackson had been doing this for 10+ years without the base commander every catching on.  That's a little strange if you ask me.  I guess they needed a lot of time to work it all out.  Anyway, they knew the only want to bring the base commander and the son of a general down was to use them to get each other.  I had to watch the movie a ton of times to finally figure it out.