Yeah, that's a terrible analysis. Humans have been making mistakes for all of history. War is hard and people make mistakes all the time. The only difference is now we get to see every mistake happen in real-time. In 1950, an Iowa class battleship was beached in its home harbor due to an extremely basic navigation error. It was an engineering miracle that they were able to recover the ship.

In 1980s sailors died because the president thought reactivating WWII battleships was a good idea. The ships were so old that no one really knew how to operate the guns anymore. On-board experimentation with outdated technology and almost no training led to a mishap.

And in 1988 the Navy shot down a civilian plane because they were too distracted by a few powerboats and no one could fathom that an airline could have a flight that left later than its scheduled flight time.

This is not a millennial or gen-z thing. If anything most of the incidents you listed were command mistakes made by gen X.