What do you all mean with countering the orders?

[Tactician]

I take countering orders to be, for example, using defensive against and attacking opponent, or vice versa. The first will give you a leg up if you are using counters, the second will nullify them if you are of greater quality in the appropriate area.

That would be by football logic, and I won't disagree with that. But does this game follow this sort of logic too? This is the problem.