Max Hastings I think wrote in one of his books that whilst both Britain and America were democracies, Germany, Russia and Japan most certainly weren't.
If those citizen soldiers are from democracies, they can have expectations as to how they would be treated that those from totalitarian states cannot rely on.
Allied servicemen still had to obey lawful orders but expect a certain consideration for their welfare, and that their officers would take the view that their chances of making a lucky shot wnet out rapidly with each round fired instead of each man killed.
However, at intermediate levels of command, it appears that the Germans probably gained some usage of their flexible Auftragstaktik, or mission based tactical doctrine, which emphasized the objective rather than the method of attaining it.
As Sydney Jary says in his classic memoir 18 Platoon, however:
They had to curve to the big picture, and never worked without armoured and artillery support.
[However] This caused the most successful of 18 Platoon's actions to be fought without support of either. It was a hard school we learned how to skirmish, infiltrate and edge our way forward.
They were a section of the Somerset Light Infantry.
Yet, as Jary points out, whilst the German Army was all myth, his men, by day and night, with and without support, faced and outfought the Germans during the campaign.
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