I watched seasons 1-4 of nu-who during the break between current seasons, and 10 also has problems with soldiers, which are evident in the Jenny episode, and in Donna asking him if he turns companions into soldiers, and the Daleks telling him he has created soldiers to do the fighting for him... plus there was the whole A Good Man Goes to War thing... so there are some precedents, but they were not as abrasive or writing in 30 foot high neon as in this season.