In general, what is the way to appeal to the lost science fiction (which the snobs of literature do not even hold for literature, and, in principle, reasonably), which was written by people who did not manage in life even a team of twenty people and in the theory of control also do not understand?

I do not know how many subordinates Heinlein commanded, but in general he served as an officer on the aircraft carrier.
So, yes, the mind and the army are two things incompatible.