I'd go with that. Any punishment maybe secret and what you tell the people could be a cover up, but that doesn't change the fact that several thousand (more?) troops who should be invading and could be better deployed elsewhere are doing nothing.
Either that world was worth capturing and should have been, in which case she's guilty of gross insubordination and/ or dereliction of duty (Not sure which I'm no shark
) or there was nothing wrong with glassing it, so why where the troops there?
Another point, if you go around naming ships 'Stalin' then you are going to attract certain comments. Now your short of names, ships like 'Advanced Carnage' and using computer virus names 'Mabutu' shows that. But still don't complain about people jumping to conclusions about the acronynm SS when their transport ship might be escorted by a ship called 'Reich'
Finally there's only so many ways you can say 'good job', 'nice chapter', etc. How many times do you say such things to yourself when reading a book?